Relative Clauses: Structure and Variation in Everyday English

by Andrew Radford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108492800
• ISBN13: 9781108492805
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"