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Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation

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2021
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Röthlisberger, M. (2021). Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation. In E. Seoane & D. Biber (Eds.), Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation (pp. 111–142). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.103.05rot

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This paper investigates the relationship between the stylistic context of utterance production and the language user’s regional background as influencing factors in one syntactic alternation, i.e., variation between the double object and the prepositional dative construction. To that end, this chapter zooms in on (1) the competition between stylistic context and regional community regarding dative choice, (2) cross-regional inter-register variation, and (3) register-specific coherence (aka intra-register variation). Comparing data fro

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Chapter 5

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  • Seoane, Elena
  • Biber, Douglas

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Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation

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Amsterdam / Philadelphia

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111

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142

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Keywords

inter-register variation, intra-register variation, dative alternation, World Englishes, probabilistic grammar, regional variation, stylistic context, probabilistic indigenization

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English

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2021-12-15

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2022-12-06

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Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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1388-0373

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9789027210548

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Green

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e-Book ISBN 9789027258458

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Röthlisberger, M. (2021). Between context and community: Regional variation in register effects in the English dative alternation. In E. Seoane & D. Biber (Eds.), Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation (pp. 111–142). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.103.05rot

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