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Grammaticalization

and English Complex

Prepositions

A corpus-based study

Sebastian Hoffmann

Routledge advances in corpus linguistics

Grammaticalization and English

Complex Prepositions

What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve?

How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What

is the connection between language use and language structure? This book

aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of

English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to ) on the

basis of large amounts of authentic language data from the Middle Ages

up to the present day.

This work addresses the debate on the grammatical status of complex

prepositions by investigating both diachronic and Present-day English

corpus data within the framework of grammaticalization theory. Taking

such a usage-based approach, the study offers ample empirical support for

the claim that complex prepositions form meaningful elements of

grammar, refuting those who maintain that complex prepositions as a

grammatical class do not exist.

Few studies carried out within the grammaticalization framework have

drawn so extensively on language corpora as suitable sources of authentic

data, and the investigation here reveals that such an application can lead to

new insights about the mechanisms of grammaticalization. This is a must-

read for linguists interested in grammaticalization and corpus linguistics.

Sebastian Hoffmann is Lecturer in Linguistics at Zurich University,

Switzerland.

Routledge advances in corpus linguistics

Edited by Anthony McEnery

Lancaster University, UK

Michael Hoey

Liverpool University, UK

Corpus-based linguistics is a dynamic area of linguistic research. The series

aims to reﬂect the diversity of approaches to the subject, and thus to

provide a forum for debate and detailed discussion of the various ways of

building, exploiting and theorizing about the use of corpora in language

studies.

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7 Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions

A corpus-based study

Sebastian Hoffmann

Grammaticalization and

English Complex Prepositions

A corpus-based study

Sebastian Hoffmann

First published 2005

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ISBN 0-415-36049-8

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