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Author Yáñ̃̃ez-Bouza, Nuria, author

Title Grammar, rhetoric and usage in English : preposition placement 1500-1900 / Nuria Yáñ̃̃ez-Bouza
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 374 pages)
Series Studies in English language
Studies in English language.
Contents Introduction -- Methodology -- Eighteenth-century precept -- Usage in early and late modern english -- Grammar, rhetoric and style -- Latent awareness -- Conclusion
Summary The 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 (1500-1900), 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-century normative works on language usage. It also sheds new light on the origins of the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. This study will be of interest to scholars working on syntax and grammar, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index
Notes English
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Subject English language -- Prepositions -- History
English language -- History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
English language
English language -- Prepositions
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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