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Preposition Placement in English
Thomas Hoffmann
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Description for Preposition Placement in English
hardcover. A full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches, and exploring first- and second-language data. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 320 pages, 59 b/w illus. 56 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 646.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Studies in English Language
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521760478
SKU
V9780521760478
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About Thomas Hoffmann
Thomas Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His main research interests are construction grammar and the syntactic and phonetic variation in world Englishes. He has co-edited the volume World Englishes: Problems, Properties and Prospects (2009, with Lucia Siebers) and together with Graeme Trousdale is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar.
Reviews for Preposition Placement in English
'… Hoffmann's book is a pleasure to read and the arguments are easy to follow. I recommend it highly to anyone who has ever wondered about preposition placement in English.' Hans C. Boas, English World-Wide