1st Edition
Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions A Corpus-based Study
By Sebastian Hoffmann
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
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Routledge
228 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Data Collection and Research Methodology 3. Complex Prepositions - Indivisible Units or Free Constructions? 4. Grammaticalization and Complex Prepositions 5. Complex Prepositions - a Diachronic Overview 6. Complex Prepositions in Present-Day English 7. In Terms of - a New Discourse Marker 8. Are Low-Frequency Complex Prepositions Grammaticalized? 9. Conclusion
Biography
Sebastian Hoffmann is Lecturer in Linguistics at Zurich University, Switzerland.
