Preposition Placement in English - A Usage-Based Approach

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches, and exploring first- and second-language data. Zusammenfassung Preposition placement refers to the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?). This volume provides a full grammatical account of preposition placement in English! and will be of interest to syntacticans! second-language researchers! and those working on variation in English. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hoffmann, Thomas (Professor Dr Hoffmann, Hoffmann Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521760478
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76047-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology