1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707269903321

Titolo

The Vice Presidential Bust Collection

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Senate, , [2009?]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

S. pub. ; ; 111-4

Soggetti

Busts - Washington (D.C.)

Vice-presidents - United States

Busts

Vice-Presidents

Portraits.

United States

Washington (D.C.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 7, 2016).

"Prepared under the direction of the U.S. Senate Commission on Art by the Office of Senate Curator."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785444703321

Autore

Hoffmann Thomas <1976->

Titolo

Preposition Placement in English : a Usage-based Approach / / Thomas Hoffmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-21649-4

0-511-85313-0

1-282-94377-4

9786612943775

0-511-93195-6

0-511-93061-5

0-511-93331-2

0-511-92810-6

0-511-93386-X

0-511-92557-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in English language

Classificazione

LAN000000

Disciplina

428.2

Soggetti

English language - Prepositions

English language - Syntax

English language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Corroborating evidence: Data and methodology -- 3. Case notes: Independent factors -- 4. Evidence I: Corpus results -- 5. Evidence II: Experimental results -- 6. Preposition placement: The case for a Construction Grammar account -- 7. Conclusion: The verdict.

Sommario/riassunto

Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as



non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.