R. M. W. Dixon (Adjunct Professor Adjunct Professor and Deputy Dir

English Prepositions

Their Meanings and Uses

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and will be of interest to to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868712
• ISBN-10: 0198868715
• Artikelnr.: 62153155

Autorenporträt

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus. He has published grammars of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), of Jarawara (OUP, 2004), and of several Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), as well as Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP, 2002), and Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (OUP, 2015; paperback 2020). His theoretical contributions include The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP, 1997), the magisterial three-volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and Are Some Languages Better than Others? (OUP, 2016; paperback 2018). He has also published on his native language, with A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2nd edition; OUP, 2005), Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP, 2014), The Unmasking of English Dictionaries (CUP, 2018), and the present volume.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preliminaries * Abbreviations and conventions * 1: A story to tell * Part I. The Stage is Set * 2: Grammatical roles * 3: Phrasal verbs * 4: Prepositional verbs * Part II. The Players * 5: The mainstays: of
for * 6: Supporting artists: by
with
together
together-with
except(-for)
but(-for)
despite
in-spite-of * 7: The central spatial prepositions: at
to
toward(s)
from * 8: Enclosure: in
into
out
out-of; within
without
inside(-of)
outside(-of) * 9: Connection and adjacency: On
upon
onto
off
off-of; against; beside(s) * 10: Superiority: up
up-to
down * 11: Position: Over
under
above
below
beneath
underneath; behind
ahead(-of)
in-front(-of)
back
forth
forwards(s)
backward(s); beyond
near(-to)
close-to
far-from; along alongside
across
through
throughout * 12: Distribution: among(st)
amid(st)
between
in-between; (a)round; about
concerning * 13: Separation: Apart(-from)
aside(-from)
away(-from) * 14: Temporal: Since
because(-of); until/till
up-until/up-till; during; after
afterward(s)
before
beforehand; past; and more * 15: Do it your way * Sources and notes * References * Index