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Preposition placement in English : a usage-based approach /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511933318 0511933312 9780511933868 051193386X 9781107631731 1107631734 1107216494 9781107216495 0511853130 9780511853135 1282943774 9781282943773 9786612943775 6612943777 0511931956 9780511931956 0511930615 9780511930614 0511928106 9780511928109 0511925573 9780511925573 |