Approaches to Prepositions
Author: Gisa Rauh
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
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Preposition Placement in English
Author: Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1139494562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreposition 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, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.
English Prepositions Explained
Author: Seth Lindstromberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010-08-11
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9027287899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.
English Prepositions
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-11-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0192639293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional verbs respectively. In Part II, each chapter deals with a set of related prepositions, providing an integrated account of the meanings for each, and explaining how these are linked to their grammatical properties. There are two chapters on relational prepositions - principally of, for, by, and with - which have only minor reference to space or time. These are followed by seven chapters on prepositions whose basic meaning is spatial, with many extensions to abstract senses, and one that ties together the varied ways through which prepositions deal with time. The final chapter outlines how some people have attempted to prescribe how language should be used; it also covers dialect variation, foreign learners' errors, and prospects for the future. The book is written in Dixon's accustomed style - clear and well-organized, with easy-to-understand explanations, and with limited use of technical terms. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning
Author: W. Schnotz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1137467746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt different methodological approaches, ranging from field research to laboratory experiments.
Understanding Prepositions
Author: Howard Sargeant
Publisher: Learners Publishing Pte Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9789814107136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers advice on how to recognize, understand and use prepositions correctly. In the study section the role of prepositions in phrasal verbs is explained and analysed, and in reference section the prepositions are listed alphabetically, and their uses illustrated with numerous examples.
Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Context
Author: Susanne Feigenbaum
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9789027229564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.
Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions
Author: Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-02
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1402038739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The book presents a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks.
The Cognitive Perspective on the Polysemy of the English Spatial Preposition Over
Author: Maria Brenda
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 144386725X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates the English spatial preposition over and prepositions in general, frequently regarded as function words with little semantic content, and shows that they encode rich and diverse information, both grammatical and semantic. An important research endeavor which the present study undertakes is an examination of whether the meaning of the preposition over is in fact complex enough for the preposition to be treated as a lexical unit rather than merely a functional one. In order to achieve that goal, the gathered linguistic material is analyzed first and foremost in terms of its semantic content; that is, the geometric relations between the trajector and landmark, and the functional consequences of such relations. The research into the morphology of prepositions reveals a considerable area of overlap between prepositions and adverbs, adverbial particles, and prefixes, as well as nouns, verbs and adjectives. The discussion of the syntax of prepositions is illustrated with labeled tree diagrams of selected sentences to show how the preposition over and the prepositional phrases it heads are embedded in larger structures of the English sentence. An important finding of the present study is the confirmation that the spatial preposition over encodes a broad range of geometrical and functional relations, as well as rich grammatical information. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in semantic and conceptual aspects of prepositions, meaning construction, human cognition, and management of space.
The Semantics of Prepositions
Author: Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 3110872579
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