Sebastian Hoffmann

Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions

A Corpus-based Study. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 228 Seiten
ISBN 0415360498
EAN 9780415360494
Veröffentlicht Mai 2005
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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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.

Portrait

Sebastian Hoffmann is Lecturer in Linguistics at Zurich University, Switzerland.