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Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects: A Study in Corpus-Based Dialectometry [Kõva köide]

(University of Manchester)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 227 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x155x15 mm, kaal: 490 g, Worked examples or Exercises; 22 Tables, black and white; 68 Maps; 31 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Line drawings, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, color
  • Sari: Studies in English Language
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2012
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107003458
  • ISBN-13: 9781107003453
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 227 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x155x15 mm, kaal: 490 g, Worked examples or Exercises; 22 Tables, black and white; 68 Maps; 31 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Line drawings, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, color
  • Sari: Studies in English Language
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2012
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107003458
  • ISBN-13: 9781107003453
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Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over 30 counties. In doing so it presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences. These features include, for example, multiple negation (e.g. don't you make no damn mistake), non-standard verbal-s (e.g. so I says, What have you to do?), or non-standard weak past tense and past participle forms (e.g. they knowed all about these things). Utilizing state-of-the-art dialectometrical analysis and visualization techniques, the book is original both in terms of its fundamental research question ('What are the large-scale patterns of grammatical variability in British English dialects?') and in terms of its methodology.

An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. The book presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences.

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An exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties.
List of figures
xi
List of maps
xiii
List of tables
xv
Preface and acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction
1(14)
1.1 Rationale, method, and objectives
1(5)
1.2 Previous big-picture accounts
6(7)
1.2.1 On the Survey of English Dialects
7(1)
1.2.2 Nineteenth-century accent differences: Alexander Ellis' survey of English dialects (1889)
7(1)
1.2.3 SED-based analyses I: Trudgill's (1990) division of traditional dialects
8(1)
1.2.4 SED-based analyses II: The Salzburg School of Dialectometry
9(1)
1.2.5 SED-based analyses III: Bamberg-type dialectometry
9(1)
1.2.6 SED-based analyses IV: Shackleton (2007)
10(1)
1.2.7 The network perspective: McMahon et al. (2007)
11(1)
1.2.8 The perceptual dialectology perspective: Inoue (1996)
12(1)
1.2.9 Synopsis
12(1)
1.3 Structure
13(2)
2 Data and methods
15(17)
2.1 Data
15(9)
2.1.1 The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects
15(8)
2.1.2 Standard English text corpora
23(1)
2.2 Method: corpus-based dialectometry
24(8)
2.2.1 The empirical foundation: defining the feature catalogue
24(1)
2.2.2 Data mining: extracting feature frequencies and creating a frequency matrix
24(3)
2.2.3 Aggregation: obtaining a distance matrix
27(1)
2.2.4 Cartographic projections to geography
28(2)
2.2.5 Software tools
30(2)
3 The feature catalogue
32(39)
3.1 The feature catalogue: an overview
32(3)
3.2 Feature selection
35(3)
3.2.1 Frequency
36(1)
3.2.2 Feasibility
37(1)
3.3 Feature extraction
38(2)
3.3.1 Fully automatic extraction
38(1)
3.3.2 Semi-automatic extraction
38(2)
3.4 The feature catalogue in detail
40(29)
3.4.1 Pronouns and determiners
41(3)
3.4.2 The noun phrase
44(4)
3.4.3 Primary verbs
48(2)
3.4.4 Tense, mood, and aspect
50(2)
3.4.5 Modality
52(1)
3.4.6 Verb morphology
53(3)
3.4.7 Negation
56(4)
3.4.8 Agreement
60(3)
3.4.9 Relativization
63(1)
3.4.10 Complementation
64(2)
3.4.11 Word order and discourse phenomena
66(3)
3.5
Chapter summary
69(2)
4 Surveying the forest: on aggregate morphosyntactic distances and similarities
71(18)
4.1 Aggregate distances and similarities: the big picture
71(6)
4.1.1 On the network nature of morphosyntax relationships
73(1)
4.1.2 Interpoint relationships
74(1)
4.1.3 Two similarity profiles
75(2)
4.2 Two regionally selective analyses
77(4)
4.2.1 Aggregate morphosyntactic distances and similarities in England
77(3)
4.2.2 Aggregate morphosyntactic distances and similarities in Scotland
80(1)
4.3 On linguistic compromise areas and dialect kernels
81(2)
4.4 Dialectal similarities and distances to Standard English
83(4)
4.5
Chapter summary
87(2)
5 Is morphosyntactic variability gradient? Exploring dialect continua
89(22)
5.1 On dialect continua
89(2)
5.2 The cartographic take on dialect continua
91(9)
5.2.1 Multidimensional Scaling
91(1)
5.2.2 Some MDS plots
92(3)
5.2.3 Introducing continuum maps
95(5)
5.2.4 Cartography: interim summary
100(1)
5.3 Quantification
100(9)
5.3.1 As-the-crow-flies distance
101(2)
5.3.2 Least-cost walking distance
103(1)
5.3.3 Least-cost travel time
103(2)
5.3.4 Linguistic gravity
105(2)
5.3.5 Where do continuous predictors fail us?
107(2)
5.3.6 Quantification: interim summary
109(1)
5.4
Chapter summary
109(2)
6 Classification: the dialect area scenario
111(17)
6.1 On the notion of dialect areas
111(2)
6.2 Quantifying the explanatory power of previous dialect partitions
113(4)
6.3 Deriving dialect areas inductively
117(10)
6.3.1 Method: Hierarchical Agglomerative Cluster Analysis
117(2)
6.3.2 Clustering: a simple example
119(2)
6.3.3 Analysis: dendrograms, cluster maps, and overlap with previous partitions
121(5)
6.3.4 Interim summary
126(1)
6.4
Chapter summary
127(1)
7 Back to the features
128(23)
7.1 Revisiting the outliers
128(9)
7.1.1 Banffshire
129(1)
7.1.2 Denbighshire
130(1)
7.1.3 Dumfriesshire
131(2)
7.1.4 Middlesex
133(1)
7.1.5 Leicestershire
134(2)
7.1.6 Warwickshire
136(1)
7.2 The quest for feature bundles: Principal Component Analysis
137(13)
7.2.1 Principal component 1: the non-standard come component
141(4)
7.2.2 Principal component 2: the DO and HAVE component
145(2)
7.2.3 Principal component 3: the BE component
147(2)
7.2.4 Principal component 4: the WOULD component
149(1)
7.3
Chapter summary
150(1)
8 Summary and discussion
151(13)
8.1 Summary: morphosyntactic variability in British English dialects
151(6)
8.2 Is geography overrated?
157(7)
9 Outlook and concluding remarks
164(2)
Appendices
Appendix A the feature catalogue--summary statistics
166(3)
Appendix B component-loading matrix
169(3)
Appendix C color maps
172(18)
References 190(17)
Index 207
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi studied English Philology, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and at Georgetown University (Washington DC). He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English Philology from the University of Freiburg. Until 2012, he did postdoctoral research at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, before taking up a lectureship in English linguistics at the University of Manchester. He joined the University of Leuven in autumn 2013.