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This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and will be of interest to to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
List of contents
- Preliminaries
- Abbreviations and conventions
- 1: A story to tell
- Part I. The Stage is Set
- 2: Grammatical roles
- 3: Phrasal verbs
- 4: Prepositional verbs
- Part II. The Players
- 5: The mainstays: of, for
- 6: Supporting artists: by, with, together, together-with, except(-for), but(-for), despite, in-spite-of
- 7: The central spatial prepositions: at, to, toward(s), from
- 8: Enclosure: in, into, out, out-of; within, without, inside(-of), outside(-of)
- 9: Connection and adjacency: On, upon, onto, off, off-of; against; beside(s)
- 10: Superiority: up, up-to, down
- 11: Position: Over, under, above, below, beneath, underneath; behind, ahead(-of), in-front(-of), back, forth, forwards(s), backward(s); beyond, near(-to), close-to, far-from; along alongside, across, through, throughout
- 12: Distribution: among(st), amid(st), between, in-between; (a)round; about, concerning
- 13: Separation: Apart(-from), aside(-from), away(-from)
- 14: Temporal: Since, because(-of); until/till, up-until/up-till; during; after, afterward(s), before, beforehand; past; and more
- 15: Do it your way
- Sources and notes
- References
- Index
About the author
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus. He has published grammars of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), of Jarawara (OUP, 2004), and of several Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), as well as Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP, 2002), and Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (OUP, 2015; paperback 2020). His theoretical contributions include The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP, 1997), the magisterial three-volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and Are Some Languages Better than Others? (OUP, 2016; paperback 2018). He has also published on his native language, with A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2nd edition; OUP, 2005), Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP, 2014), The Unmasking of English Dictionaries (CUP, 2018), and the present volume.
Summary
This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and will be of interest to to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
