33.777, Books: English Prepositions: Dixon

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:46:46
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: English Prepositions: Dixon

 


Title: English Prepositions 
Subtitle: Their Meanings and Uses 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/english-prepositions-9780198868712? 


Author: R. M. W. Dixon

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198868682 Pages: 464 Price: U.S. $ 115
Paperback: ISBN:  9780198868712 Pages: 464 Price: U.S. $ 45


Abstract:

This 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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