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Volume 4 -
Cambridgeshire Dialect Grammar
(2010)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Background: Regional English Speech Project and the
Cambridgeshire Dialect Grammar
1. Introduction
1.1 Aim of the Study
1.2 Introducing Cambridgeshire
2. Material and Method
2.1 Collecting the Material
2.1.1 Selection of localities and informants
2.1.2 Recordings
2.1.3 Transcriptions
2.2 Method and Theory
3. Verbs
3.1 Tense and Aspect
3.1.1 Present time reference
3.1.1.1 The simple present
3.1.1.2 The simple present with generic or habitual time reference
3.1.1.3 The type HAVE GOT and variants
3.1.2 Past time reference
3.1.2.1 The simple past
3.1.2.2 The simple present to describe past activities
3.1.2.3 The present perfect
3.1.2.4 The past perfect
3.1.2.5 Used to and would/’d
3.1.2.6 Past participle as predicate verb in finite clauses
3.1.3 Future time reference
3.1.3.1 Shall or will/’'ll + infinitive
3.1.3.2 To be going to + infinitive
3.1.3.3 The present progressive
3.1.3.4 The simple present
3.1.3.5 Future time in the past
3.1.4 Progressive forms
3.2 Auxiliaries
3.2.1 Auxiliaries of the present and past perfect
3.2.2 Auxiliaries of the past perfect
3.2.3
Do
3.2.4
Can, could
3.2.5
May, might
3.2.6
Must
,
have to
and the type HAVE GOT TO and variants
3.2.7
Shall, will
3.2.8
Should, would
3.2.9
Ought to
3.2.10
Dare
and
need
3.3 Non-finite Verb Forms
3.3.1 The infinitive
3.3.2 Participles and verbal nouns in
-ing
4. Concord and Non-concord between the Subject and the Predicate
4.1 The Verb
Be
with Singular and Plural Subjects in Affirmative Sentences
4.2 The Verb
Be
in Existential
There
-Sentences
5. Negation
5.1
Een’t
(
Ain’t
)
5.2
Wont
5.3
Don’t
5.4 Multiple Negation
5.5
Never
Negation
6. Nouns
6.1 Plural Formation
6.2 The Associative Plural
6.3 The Singular and Plural in Expressions of Time
6.4 The Genitive Case
6.5 Partitive Expressions
7. Pronouns
7.1 Personal Pronouns
7.1.1 Personal pronouns in subject and object functions
7.1.2 Personal pronouns and gender
7.1.3 Non-expression of personal pronouns
7.2 Possessive Pronouns
7.3 Demonstrative Pronouns
7.3.1 Forms and functions
7.3.2 Intensification with
here
and
there
7.4 Reflexive Pronouns
7.4.1 Forms
7.4.2 Functions
7.5 Relative Pronouns
7.5.1 Relative clauses with expressed relative pronouns
7.5.2 Non-expression of a relative pronoun
7.5.3 Relative clauses and preposition stranding
7.5.4 Extraposed relative clauses
7.5.5 Alternatives to relative structures
7.5.6
What
in clauses introduced by
than
or
as
7.6 Interrogative Pronouns
7.7 Indefinite Pronouns
7.8 Reciprocal Pronouns
8. Adjectives
8.1 Comparison: Equality and Inequality
8.2 Multiple Comparison
8.3 Proportional Comparative and Comparative of Gradation
8.4 Absolute Superlative
8.5 Two Adjectives with a Similar Meaning Linked Together
8.6 Functions of Adjectives
9. Adverbs
9.1 Form
9.2 Comparison
9.3 Functions and Meanings
9.3.1 Adverbs of Manner
9.3.2 Adverbs of degree and quantity as intensifiers
9.3.3 Adverbs of place
9.3.4 Adverbs of time and frequency
10. Prepositions
10.1 General Considerations
10.2 Single Prepositions and Preposition Combinations
10.2.1
A
10.2.2
At
,
in
,
on
10.2.3
Down
,
up
10.2.4 (
Away
)
from
,
out
(
of
),
off
(
of
/
on
)
10.2.5
Again
,
against
10.2.6
Along
10.2.7
Aside
10.2.8
Atop
10.2.9
Near
,
close to
10.2.10
Till
,
while
10.3 Non-expression of a Preposition
Additional information
Characteristics of Cambridgeshire dialect speech
Transcribing Cambridgeshire dialect speech: problems and solutions
Collecting spontaneous speech data (forthcoming)
Forms and uses of definite and indefinite articles (forthcoming)
Articles
A
Male and female language in Cambridgeshire: differences and similarities
B
Scarcity of information on Cambridgeshire speech up until the 1970s
C
Zero suffix with the third-person singular of the simple present
Bibliography
Appendix A
