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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Thomas, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Studies in English language.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Case notes: independent factors; 4. Evidence I: corpus results; 5. Evidence II: experimental results; 6. Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account; 7. Conclusion: the verdict.