Function and Use of to and of in Multi-Word Units

Informationen zum Autor Michael Pace-Sigge is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Finland. He has studied and taught at Liverpool University, UK, where his key research area had been Liverpool English (Scouse). Having been supervised by Michael Hoey, who first introduced the concept of Lexical Priming, Dr Pace-Sigge continues to work on the theory and published Lexical Priming in Spoken English (2013). Klappentext The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. Zusammenfassung The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions! carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. The Background: From Historical Descriptions of TO and OF to Contemporary Corpus-Based Evidence 3. OF and TO Usage in Fiction4. OF and TO in Semi-prepared Speech5. OF and TO Usage in Spoken Texts6. Discussion: Usage patterns for OF and TO in British English7. Implications for the Teaching of English8. Conclusion

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael Pace-Sigge
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.09.2015
• EAN: 9781137470300
• ISBN: 978-1-137-47030-0
• Pages: 186
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature allemandes; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; B, Linguistics, Lexicology, English, Grammar, English Language, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Morphology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Historical Linguistics, Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphology, Germanic Languages, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar, Corpora (Linguistics), Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology/Vocabulary, Lexicolopgy / Vocabulary