Description
Taming the Vernacular
From dialect to written standard language
Author: Cheshire Jenny
Language: EnglishSubject for Taming the Vernacular:
Keywords
inflected; infinitives; dialect; syntax; standard; language; british; grammar; left; dislocations; Young Man; Inflected Infinitive; English Dialect Grammar; Modern Language; Left Dislocation; Written Standard; Present Day English; Nonstandard Dialect; Present Day Standard English; Stress Clashes; Speech Act Participant; Varietal Conditions; Spanish Languages; Clitic Positions; Spoken Syntax; Black Vernacular English; Nonstandardized Syntax; Mass Words; SVO Language; Vernacular Syntax; Nonstandard Patterns; Dialect Grammar; Past Tenses; Finnish Dialects; Contemporary Galician
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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1. The syntax of spoken language
Jenny Cheshire and Dieter Stein
2. Dialect versus standard language: nature versus culture
Jaap van Marle
3. Syntax and varieties
Dieter Stein
4. Into and out of the standard language: the particle ni in Finnish
Maria Vilkuna
5. Involvement in 'standard' and 'nonstandard' English
Jenny Cheshire
6. This, that, yon: on 'three-dimensional' systems
Gunnel Melchers
7. Grammatical variation and the avoidance of stress clashes in Northern Low German
Günter Rohdenburg
8. Norms made easy: case marking with modal verbs in Finnish
Lea Laitinen
9. Articles and number in oral or close-to-oral varieties
Brigitte Schlieben-Lange
10. Proscribed collocations with shall and will: the eighteenth century (non-) standard reassessed
Leslie K. Arnovick
11. The genitives of the relative pronouns in present-day English
Aimo Sepp™nen
12. 'Ah'm going for to give youse a story today': remarks on second plural pronouns in Englishes
Susan Wright
13. Strengthening identity: differentiation and change in contemporary Galacian
Johannes Kabatek
14. Left dislocation in French: varieties, norm and usage
Alain Berrendonner and Marie-José Reichler-Béguelin
15. Dialect variation as a consequence of standardization
Dieter Wanner
16. The atternings of nonstandard syntax in German
Beate Henn-Memmesheimer
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