Preposition Placement in English : A Usage-based Approach / Thomas Hoffmann.
"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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Studies in English language.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Corroborating evidence: 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.