Preposition Placement in English A Usage-based Approach

Preposition Placement in English A Usage-based Approach

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Hoffmann Thomas
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9780521760478
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Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.
EAN 9780521760478
ISBN 052176047X
Binding Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date January 6, 2011
Pages 320
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 160 x 20
Country United Kingdom
Readership Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Authors Hoffmann Thomas
Illustrations 56 Tables, black and white; 59 Line drawings, unspecified
Series Studies in English Language