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ISBN: 9781107000797 9780511732522 051173252X 9781316247211 131624721X 9781316249116 1316249115 1107000793 1316235874 1316254798 1316233987 1316252892 1316251004 1316245322 1108713173 1322561036 9781316235874 9781316254790 9781316233986 9781316252895 9781316251003 9781316245323 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the 'rules' regarding prepositions have changed over time, as a result of language change, of change in attitudes towards language, and of processes such as standardization. This book investigates preposition placement in the early and late Modern English periods (1500-1900), with a special focus on preposition stranding (The house which I live in) in opposition to pied piping (The house in which I live). Based on a large-scale analysis of precept and usage data, this study reassesses the alleged influence of late eighteenth-century normative works on language usage. It also sheds new light on the origins of the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. This study will be of interest to scholars working on syntax and grammar, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- English language --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Rhetoric --- Prepositions. --- Prepositional phrases --- Germanic languages
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ISBN: 9781108419567 9781108303576 9781108411424 1108321755 1108303579 1108419569 1108318037 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.
Grammar --- English language --- Grammar, Historical. --- Syntax. --- Language and linguistics. --- Syntax --- Grammar, Historical --- Germanic languages
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ISBN: 9781800416154 Year: 2024 Publisher: Bristol Blue Ridge Summit
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