Yáñez-Bouza / Yanez-Bouza Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Preposition Placement 1500–1900
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-316-23587-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Studies in English Language

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria

Yanez-Bouza, Nuria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Eighteenth-century precept; 4. Usage in early and late Modern English; 5. Grammar, rhetoric and style; 6. Latent awareness; 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Manchester, and currently holds a Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Vigo, Spain.