Relative clauses in English dialects of the British
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Herrmann, Tanja

doi:10.1515/9783110197518.21

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“…The relevant preferences were present in the English language throughout its history. In her study on British dialects, Herrmann (2005) also observes that the complementiser strategy is more likely to occur higher on the scale. In this respect, whbased relative pronouns indeed show similar behaviour to resumptive pronouns in other languages (Kirby 1996; but see the comments above and the critical evaluation by Gisborne and Truswell 2017:32-35).…”

Section: Case and The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 94%

“…A clear preference for the complementiser strategy can also be observed in Old English (Ringe and Taylor 2014:467) and in present-day dialects (cf. Herrmann 2005, Kortmann and Wagner 2007, Beal 2008. Regarding dialects, the preference holds not only for the canonical demonstrative-based complementiser that, but also for the wh-based complementisers what and where, and traditional patterns with as and at, with considerable regional differences.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The detailed analysis (Bacskai-Atkari 2020:97-108) shows that several prescriptive rules interact here. Apart from a general preference for wh-relatives, who is especially promoted over that in relative clauses with human referents (the above-mentioned prescriptive rules, dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, consider that impolite in such cases), and the original examples of which with human referents were naturally changed to who/whom as well, since which-relatives with human referents are no longer possible in Standard English (this is less strictly but largely adhered to in present-day British dialects as well, see Herrmann 2005). 16 A similar preference towards complementisers can be observed across Germanic (cf.…”

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confidence: 99%

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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective

Bácskai-Atkári

2020

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The article talk examines the distribution of relativising strategies in English in a cross-Germanic perspective, arguing that English is quite unique among Germanic languages both regarding the number of available options and their distribution. The differences from other Germanic languages (both West Germanic and Scandinavian) are primarily due to the historical changes affecting the case and gender system in English more generally. The loss of case and gender on the original singular neuter relative pronoun facilitated its reanalysis as a complementiser. The effect of the case system can also be observed in properties that are not evidently related to case. Specifically, choice between the pronoun strategy and the complementiser strategy is known to show differences according to the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. While English shows a subject vs. oblique distinction in this respect, matching its nominative/oblique case system, German dialects show a subject/direct object vs. oblique distinction, matching the nominative/accusative/oblique case setting in the language. The particular setting in English is thus not dependent on e.g. a single parameter but on various factors that are otherwise present in other Germanic languages as well, and it is ultimately the complex interplay of these factors that results in the particular setup.

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Section: Case and The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchymentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Operators Versus Complementisersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Totalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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English relative clauses in a cross-Germanic perspective

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2020

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“…Research on relative clauses and relativization processes has generated a substantial body of work over the years, especially with regard to the distribution of relative markers within the relative clause and the factors that condition this, mainly in British English (BrE), American English (AmE) (Tottie, 1997;Guy and Bayley, 1995;Hinrichs et al, 2015) and some regional varieties (Tottie and Rey, 1997;Tottie and Harvie, 2000;Tagliamonte, 2002;Herrmann, 2003). More recently, research on relative clauses has also extended to New Englishes Huber, 2012;Suárez-Gómez, 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Section: Relative Markersmentioning

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Language contact in Gibraltar English: A pilot study with ICE-GBR

Loureiro‐Porto

Suárez‐Gómez

2017

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The variety of English used in Gibraltar has been in contact with a number of European languages, such as Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic (Moyer, 1998: 216;Suárez-Gómez, 2012: 1746, for more than 300 years. Studies of this variety have traditionally been based on interviews and observation (e.g. Moyer, 1993Moyer, , 1998Cal Varela, 1996;Levey, 2008Levey, 2015Weston, 2011Weston, , 2013, and a detailed morphosyntactic description is yet to be published. In this context, the compilation of a reliable Gibraltar corpus using the standards of the International Corpus of English (ICE) will constitute a landmark in the analysis of this lesser known variety of English. In the present paper we describe the ICE project and the current state of the compilation of ICE-GBR. In addition, we present a detailed comparison between the section on press news reports of ICE-GB (standard British English) and ICE-GBR, with the aim of identifying morphosyntactic features that reveal the influence of language contact with Spanish in this territory. We explore variables such as the choice of relativizer (assuming a higher preference for that in GBR, in agreement with Spanish que, the most frequent relativizer, Brucart, 1999: 490), the use of titles and pseudo-titles preceding proper names (which, as shown by Hundt and Kabatek, 2015, are very frequent in English journalese and extremely infrequent in Spanish), and the frequency of the passive voice (expected to be lower in ICE-GBR), among others. A preliminary analysis of these variables reveals that the influence of Spanish on the variety of English used in the Gibraltarian press, at the morphosyntactic level, is almost non-existent, limited to occasional cases of code-switching between the two varieties. We hypothesize that a possible 94 Alicante Journal of English Studies explanation for this strong exonormative allegiance to British English, at least in press news reports, can be found in a strong editorial pressure to reflect the prestigious parent-variety.

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Relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles

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