Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English - Preposition Placement 1500-1900

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Eighteenth-century precept; 4. Usage in early and late Modern English; 5. Grammar, rhetoric and style; 6. Latent awareness; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester, and currently holds a Senior Research Fellowship at Universidade de Vigo, Spain.

Summary

Explores the preposition in English, and particularly how its placement in a sentence is influenced by both syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints. This detailed, corpus-based study shows how such issues have affected the placement and usage of the English preposition since the sixteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Y EZ-BOUZA NURIA, Nuria Yanez-Bouza, Nuria (University of Manchester) Yanez-Bouza, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108713177
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71317-7
• No. of pages: 391
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historical & comparative linguistics, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, C 1700 To C 1800, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Historical and comparative linguistics, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English