Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Preposition Placement 1500-1900

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 391
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781108713177
• ISBN-10: 1108713173
• Artikelnr.: 55756679

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.