Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study

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ISBN: 9780415360494 | 0415360498
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Copyright: 6/23/2005

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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 dating from the Middle Ages until today.

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

xii

List of abbreviations

xiv

1 Introduction

(5)

Chapter overview

(3)

2 Data collection and research methodology

(19)

Introduction

(1)

Diachronic sources

(10)

Present-day English: the British National Corpus

(3)

Searching the data

(3)

A frequency list of complex prepositions

(2)

3 Complex prepositions: indivisible units or free constructions?

(26)

Introduction

(1)

An overview of grammars

(5)

Syntactic evidence against complex prepositions: Seppänen et al. (1994)

(2)

Seppänen et al. (1994): some methodological considerations

(2)

The status of complex prepositions: corpus evidence

(14)

In favour of unity: complex prepositions exist!

(2)

4 Grammaticalization and complex prepositions

(9)

Introduction: language change

(2)

A case study: the grammaticalization of in view of

(6)

The status of complex prepositions as elements of grammar

(1)

5 Complex prepositions: a diachronic overview

(35)

Introduction

(3)

Early complex prepositions

(14)

Complex prepositions established between 1500 and 1700

(9)

Complex prepositions established after 1700

(7)

Grammaticalization and corpus data

(2)

6 Complex prepositions in Present-day English

(25)

Introduction

(2)

General distribution

(6)

The distributional characteristics of some individual complex prepositions

103

(4)

Interpreting distributional data: conceptual frequency and style

107

(3)

The case of concession: in spite of and its variants

110

(8)

Conclusion

118

(2)

7 In terms of a new discourse marker

120

(20)

Introduction

120

(1)

Historical development

120

(4)

Present-day use

124

(1)

In terms of in spoken language

125

(13)

Summary and conclusion

138

(2)

8 Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized?

140

(26)

Introduction

140

(1)

The data

141

(3)

The importance of frequency in grammaticalization

144

(4)

Frequency and saliency

148

(4)

Grammaticalization by analogy

152

(2)

Low-frequency grammaticalization phenomena and corpus data

154

(10)

Summary and conclusion

164

(2)

9 Conclusion

166

(9)

The status of complex prepositions as syntactic units

166

(3)

Complex prepositions and grammaticalization theory

169

(4)

The use of complex prepositions

173

(1)

Outlook: suggestions for further research

173

(2)

Appendix I: the texts of the Gutenberg Corpus

175

(10)

Appendix II: David Lee's genre categorization scheme

185

(3)

Notes

188

(11)

Bibliography

199

(10)

Author index

209

(3)

Subject index

212

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Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study

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