Download PDF by Thomas Hoffmann: Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach

By Thomas Hoffmann

Preposition placement, the contest among preposition stranding (What is he conversing about?) and pied-piping (About what's he talking?), is likely one of the best parts of syntactic version in English. this is often the 1st ebook to enquire preposition placement throughout every kind of clauses that license it, comparable to questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and people which express express stranding, equivalent to non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over a hundred real examples from either first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) facts, it combines experimental and corpus-based methods to supply a whole grammatical account of preposition placement in either forms of English. even supposing written in the usage-based building grammar framework, the implications are awarded in theory-neutral terminology, making them available to researchers from all syntactic faculties. This pioneering quantity may be of curiosity not just to syntacticians, but in addition second-language researchers and people engaged on edition in English.

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