A full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches, and exploring first- and second-language data.
A full grammatical account of preposition placement in English, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches, and exploring first- and second-language data.
Thomas Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. His main research interests are construction grammar and the syntactic and phonetic variation in world Englishes. He has co-edited the volume World Englishes: Problems, Properties and Prospects (2009, with Lucia Siebers) and together with Graeme Trousdale is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Data and methodology 3. Case notes: independent factors 4. Evidence I: corpus results 5. Evidence II: experimental results 6. Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account 7. Conclusion: the verdict.
1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Case notes: independent factors; 4. Evidence I: corpus results; 5. Evidence II: experimental results; 6. Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account; 7. Conclusion: the verdict.
1. Introduction 2. Data and methodology 3. Case notes: independent factors 4. Evidence I: corpus results 5. Evidence II: experimental results 6. Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account 7. Conclusion: the verdict.
1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Case notes: independent factors; 4. Evidence I: corpus results; 5. Evidence II: experimental results; 6. Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account; 7. Conclusion: the verdict.
Rezensionen
'... Hoffmann's book is a pleasure to read and the arguments are easy to follow. I recommend it highly to anyone who has ever wondered about preposition placement in English.' Hans C. Boas, English World-Wide
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