{"product_id":"ditransitives-in-british-english-dialects-9783110352146","title":"Ditransitives in British English Dialects","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Johanna Gerwin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46499347562647,"sku":"9783110352146","price":13838.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110352146.webp?v=1769193033","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ditransitives-in-british-english-dialects-9783110352146","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}