Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-Based Approach
(Part of the Studies in English Language Series)
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Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107631734
ISBN13:9781107631731
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:318 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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