Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Data Availability Statement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
- 3 World Englishes and Dialect Typology
- 4 The Data
- 5 Alternation-by-Alternation Analysis
- 6 Distances, Similarities, and Coherence
- 7 Experimental Corroboration
- 8 Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
- References
- Index
2 - Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Data Availability Statement
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Grammatical and Syntactic Variation
- 3 World Englishes and Dialect Typology
- 4 The Data
- 5 Alternation-by-Alternation Analysis
- 6 Distances, Similarities, and Coherence
- 7 Experimental Corroboration
- 8 Where Are We Now, and Where to Next?
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter surveys the literature on variation in general and on grammatical variables (a.k.a. "alternations'') in particular. Next, we review well-known grammatical variables/alternations in English as well as previous comparative investigations of grammatical alternations in English. Last but not least, we discuss in detail previous variationist work on the three alternations subject to study in this book: the genitive alternation, the dative alternation, and the particle placement alternation.
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- Comparative Variation AnalysisGrammatical Alternations in World Englishes, pp. 12 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023