Grammar, rhetoric and usage in english: preposition placement 1500–1900
Auteur :
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108713177
Date de publication :
21 mars 2019
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,0 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
550 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Explores the preposition in English, and particularly how its placement in a sentence is influenced by both syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints. This detailed, corpus-based study shows how such issues have affected the placement and usage of the English preposition since the sixteenth century.