Relative Clauses
Relative Clauses
Using novel examples from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet, this path-breaking book will force us to reconsider the nature of everyday English and its complex interplay of syntactic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic factors. Uncovering unusual types of non-standard relative clauses, Andrew Radford develops theoretically sophisticated analyses in an area that has traditionally hardly been touched on: that of nonstandard (yet not clearly dialectal) variation in English. Making sense of a huge amount of data, the book demonstrates that some types of non-standard relative clauses have a complex syntactic structure of their own in which the relation between the relative clause and its antecedent is either syntactically encoded or pragmatic in nature, while others come about as a result of hypercorrection, and yet others arise from processing errors.
- Makes sense of a huge amount of new data, serving as an invaluable resource for researchers and students working on syntax and syntactic variation
- Identifies new parameters of microvariation in syntax
- Contributes to understanding the interaction between syntax, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and processing
Product details
August 2019Paperback
9781108729680
324 pages
228 × 152 × 19 mm
0.48kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Background
- 2. Resumptive relatives
- 3. Prepositional relatives
- 4. Gapless relatives
- Epilogue.
