Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: let’s talk about –s

Rupp, Laura; Britain, David (eds.) (2019). Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: let’s talk about –s. London: Palgrave 10.1057/978-1-349-72803-9

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This book investigates –s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions. It embraces the many ways in which –s marking varies across the English speaking world, and considers both how it arose in these places historically and the ways in which it has since developed. The authors propose a story which holistically accounts for these different manifestations of –s, drawing upon evidence from a wide range of subdisciplines in linguistics, including sociolinguistics, generative syntax, historical linguistics, dialectology, and discourse-pragmatics. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in these and related fields.

Item Type:	Book (Monograph)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Modern English Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Rupp, Laura Marie, Britain, David
Subjects:	400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages
ISBN:	978-1-349-72803-9
Publisher:	Palgrave
Language:	English
Submitter:	Federico Erba
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2020 14:19
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2024 12:31
Publisher DOI:	10.1057/978-1-349-72803-9
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/138833