English Prepositions
Their Meanings and Uses
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 November 2021
- ISBN 9780198868682
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 252x180x33 mm
- Weight 994 g
- Language English 151
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Short description:
This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and will be of interest to to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preliminaries
Abbreviations and conventions
A story to tell
Part I. The Stage is Set
Grammatical roles
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional verbs
Part II. The Players
The mainstays: of, for
Supporting artists: by, with, together, together-with, except(-for), but(-for), despite, in-spite-of
The central spatial prepositions: at, to, toward(s), from
Enclosure: in, into, out, out-of; within, without, inside(-of), outside(-of)
Connection and adjacency: On, upon, onto, off, off-of; against; beside(s)
Superiority: up, up-to, down
Position: Over, under, above, below, beneath, underneath; behind, ahead(-of), in-front(-of), back, forth, forwards(s), backward(s); beyond, near(-to), close-to, far-from; along alongside, across, through, throughout
Distribution: among(st), amid(st), between, in-between; (a)round; about, concerning
Separation: Apart(-from), aside(-from), away(-from)
Temporal: Since, because(-of); until/till, up-until/up-till; during; after, afterward(s), before, beforehand; past; and more
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