Bookcover of Variability with Infinitival TO in Present Day American English
Booktitle:
Variability with Infinitival TO in Present Day American English
Morphosyntactic Variation and Its Linguistic and Social Factors
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
(2012-04-13
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-8484-4101-3
ISBN-10:
3848441012
EAN:
9783848441013
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
Variation between the presence and absence of the infinitival marker 'to' in complementation in American English is documented in this work. Data from internet usage and from a questionnaire survey are presented, with correlations offered between the survey results and various linguistic and social factors. Linguistic factors examined are the type of sentence and the negation of the infinitives. The social factor examined is gender.