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Grammar, rhetoric and usage in English : preposition placement 1500-1900 /
The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the 'rules' regarding prepositions have changed over time, as a result of language...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the 'rules' regarding prepositions have changed over time, as a result of language change, of change in attitudes towards language, and of processes such as standardization. This book investigates preposition placement in the early and late Modern English periods (1500-1900), with a special focus on preposition stranding (The house which I live in) in opposition to pied piping (The house in which I live). Based on a large-scale analysis of precept and usage data, this study reassesses the alleged influence of late eighteenth-century normative works on language usage. It also sheds new light on the origins of the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. This study will be of interest to scholars working on syntax and grammar, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 374 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511732522 051173252X 9781316247211 131624721X 9781316249116 1316249115 1316235874 9781316235874 1316254798 9781316254790 1316233987 9781316233986 1316252892 9781316252895 1316251004 9781316251003 1316245322 9781316245323 |