Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study

ISBN-13: 9781138878310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str.

Sebastian Hoffmann

Opis

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in English and discusses the theoretical justification for their classification as a grammatical category.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Data Collection and Research Methodology 3. Complex Prepositions - Indivisible Units or Free Constructions? 4. Grammaticalization and Complex Prepositions 5. Complex Prepositions - a Diachronic Overview 6. Complex Prepositions in Present-Day English 7. In Terms of - a New Discourse Marker 8. Are Low-Frequency Complex Prepositions Grammaticalized? 9. Conclusion

O autorze

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