Relative Clauses

Radford, Andrew

  • 出版商: Cambridge
  • 出版日期: 2019-06-20
  • 售價: $3,070
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,917
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 380
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1108492800
  • ISBN-13: 9781108492805
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商品描述

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.