Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

ISBN-13: 9783631677421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 122 str.

Marianna Hudcovicova

Opis

This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions of and to. It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English-Czech verbal prepositional counterparts and groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features. She identifies the features that are the same for each verb group and generalizes them. The book determines trends and tendencies for verbs when they collocate with a certain preposition.

Spis treści

Grammatical collocation - Verbs - Prepositions - Verbal prepositional structures - Semantic group - Valency - Equivalency

O autorze

Marianna Hudcovicová has studied at the Faculty of Education, Trnavská University in Trnava, Slovakia, where she received her Master degree in English language. She achieved her Doctorate degree in English Grammar from the Department of English and American Studies, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. She works at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Slovakia. Her main interests include English Morphology and Syntax, Comparative Linguistics, and Semantics of verbs.