30.1685, Books: Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Yáñez-Bouza

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:18:24
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Yáñez-Bouza

 


Title: Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English 
Subtitle: Preposition Placement 1500–1900 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/grammar-rhetoric-and-usage-english-preposition-placement-15001900?format=PB 


Author: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713177 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713177 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108713177 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

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.
   

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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