Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses

Download or read book Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses written by Nuria Hernández and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The three parts investigate complement clauses (Daniela Kolbe), personal pronouns (Nuria Hernández) and modals (Monika Edith Schulz). The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous spoken English.