Relative Clauses: Structure and Variation in Everyday English (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 161)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Radford

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

04.0_pp_vi_vi_Copyright_page
05.0_pp_vii_viii_Dedication
06.0_pp_ix_x_Contents
07.0_pp_xi_xi_Acknowledgements
08.0_pp_1_6_Prologue
09.0_pp_7_53_Background
10.0_pp_54_131_Resumptive_Relatives
11.0_pp_132_190_Prepositional_Relatives
12.0_pp_191_242_Gapless_Relatives
13.0_pp_243_244_Epilogue
14.0_pp_245_271_Glossary_and_Abbreviations
15.0_pp_272_309_References
16.0_pp_310_314_Index