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

✍ Scribed by Andrew Radford

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• 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

Title
Contents
Prologue
1 Background
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Types of Relative Clause
1.3 The Structure of Relative Clauses
1.4 Truncated Relative Clauses
1.5 Relativisers
1.6 Derivation of Relatives
1.7 Summary
2 Resumptive Relatives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Existing Research
2.3 Inaccessibility Hypothesis
2.4 Resumptive Relativisers
2.5 Pronominal Resumptives
2.6 Nominal Resumptives
2.7 Relative and Topic Structures
2.8 Summary
3 Prepositional Relatives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Preposition Doubling as Copying
3.3 Preposition Doubling as Splitting
3.4 Preposition Intrusion
3.5 Preposition Doubling and Intrusion as Hypercorrection
3.6 Preposition Doubling and Intrusion as Speech Errors
3.7 Summary
4 Gapless Relatives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Stranded Preposition Analyses
4.3 A Fronted Preposition Analysis
4.4 Prepositionless Analyses
4.5 Processing Analyses
4.6 Summary
Epilogue
Glossary and Abbreviations
References
Index