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Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500-1900 - Studies in English Language
Yanez-Bouza, Nuria (University of Manchester)
Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500-1900 - Studies in English Language
Yanez-Bouza, Nuria (University of Manchester)
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.
392 pages, 22 b/w illus. 22 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 18, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781107000797 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Dimensions | 154 × 238 × 27 mm · 689 g |
Language | English |
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