Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English Preposition Placement 1500–1900 Paperback
Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in EnglishPreposition Placement 15001900\nAuthor(s): Nuria Yez-Bouza\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108713177, 978-1108713177\nSynopsis\nThe 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 [tel], 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-centur.
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