Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions - A Corpus-based Study (Paperback)


What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

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What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Routledge

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Release date

February 2015

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

2005

Authors

Dimensions

234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

192

ISBN-13

978-1-138-87831-0

Barcode

9781138878310

Categories

LSN

1-138-87831-6



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