Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-Syntactic Study
β Scribed by Martina HΓ€cker
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Series
- Topics in English Linguistics 27
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This study presents a comprehensive syntactic and semantic analysis of a geographically balanced corpus of written and spoken texts, in contemporary Scots (including the author's own field recordings), amply illustrated with examples, thus making a major contribution to the field of English dialect grammar.
β¦ Subjects
Linguistics Words Language Grammar Reference
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