Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-Based Approach

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Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding and pied-piping , 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 and second-language 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.

Language: English

Pages: 297

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 06, 2011

ISBN: 052176047X

ISBN 13: 9780521760478

Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-Based Approach

Thomas Hoffmann

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Language: English

Pages: 297

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 06, 2011

ISBN: 052176047X

ISBN 13: 9780521760478

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