Grammar, rhetoric and usage in English : preposition placement, 1500-1900

• Tác giả: Yáñez-Bouza Nuria.
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1107000797
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 425.1 Grammar of standard English Syntax of standard English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: xvii, 373 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Ngôn ngữ
• ID: 153655
• Chủ đề: 1. English language--Prepositions

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index.

Tóm tắt

"This book investigates preposition placement in the early and late Modern English periods (1500-1900), with special focus on preposition stranding (The house which I live in) in contrast to pied pipping (The house in which I live). Based on a large-scale analysis in precept and usage data, this study reassesses this alleged influence of late eighteenth-century narrative works on language usage. It also sheds new light on the origins of the stigmatisation or preposition stranding."