Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English by Nuria Yezbouza

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English by Nuria Yezbouza

Explores the preposition in English, and particularly how its placement in a sentence is influenced by both syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints. This detailed, corpus-based study shows how such issues have affected the placement and usage of the English preposition since the sixteenth century.

'Nuria Yáñez-Bouza offers a theoretically and empirically rich exploration of the relationship between linguistic practice and precept in the usage of that notorious grammatical shibboleth, preposition stranding, in late modern EnglishThe result is a comprehensive account of eighteenth century attitudes and linguistic habits in the period.' Susan Fitzmaurice, University of Sheffield
'Comprehensively researched and rigorously analyzed, this brilliantly definitive work mines linguistic, grammatical, rhetorical and literary sources to reveal the complex, interconnected histories of preposition stranding and the developing prescriptive tradition.' Carol Percy, University of Toronto
'All in all, Yáñez-Bouza's Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English fits in nicely with other research in the field and adds an important piece to the socio-historical study of effects of prescriptivism on actual language use. It is a well-structured study which benefits greatly from a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. This book is suitable for researchers as well as students with a background in syntax.' Carmen Ebner, The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

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.

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ISBN 13	9781108713177
ISBN 10	1108713173
Title	Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English
Author	Nuria Yezbouza
Series	Studies In English Language
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2019-03-21
Number of pages	392
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