Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Vol. 7)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 192 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781134237265
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780415360494, 9780203008225, 9781138878310
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 10/13/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Sebastian Hoffmann
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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