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Preposition Placement in English

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 irst 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, com-

paratives and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both

irst-language (British) 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 access-

ible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume

will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also to second-language

researchers and those working on variation in English.

t h o m a s h o f f m a n n is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics

at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His main research interests

are Construction Grammar and the syntactic and phonetic variation in

World Englishes. He has co-edited the volume World Englishes: Problems,

Properties and Prospects (2009; with Lucia Siebers) and together with

Graeme Trousdale is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of

Construction Grammar .

s t u d i e s i n e n g l i s h l a n g u a g e

General editor

Merja Kytö (Uppsala University)

Editorial Board

Bas Aarts (University College London), John Algeo (University of Georgia),

Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Shefield), Christian Mair (University of

Freiburg), Charles F. Meyer (University of Massachusetts)

The aim of this series is to provide a framework for original studies of English,

both present-day and past. All books are based securely on empirical research,

and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of

national and international varieties of English, both written and spoken. The

series covers a broad range of topics and approaches, including syntax, phon-

ology, grammar, vocabulary, discourse, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, and is

aimed at an international readership.

Already published in this series:

Charles F. Meyer: Apposition in Contemporary English

Jan Firbas: Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken

Communication

Izchak M. Schlesinger: Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case

Katie Wales: Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English

Laura Wright: The Development of Standard English, 1300–1800: Theories,

Descriptions, Conflicts

Charles F. Meyer: English Corpus Linguistics: Theory and Practice

Stephen J. Nagle and Sara L. Sanders (eds.): English in the Southern United

States

Anne Curzan: Gender Shifts in the History of English

Kingsley Bolton: Chinese Englishes

Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta (eds.): Medical and Scientific Writing in Late

Medieval English

Elizabeth Gordon, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan,

Andrea Sudbury and Peter Trudgill: New Zealand English: Its Origins

and Evolution

Raymond Hickey (ed.): Legacies of Colonial English

Merja Kytö, Mats Rydén and Erik Smitterberg (eds.): Nineteenth-Century

English: Stability and Change

John Algeo: British or American English? A Handbook of Word and Grammar

Patterns

Christian Mair: Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and

Standardization

Evelien Keizer: The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic

Categorization

Raymond Hickey: Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms

Günter Rohdenburg and Julia Schlüter (eds.): One Language, Two

Grammars?: Differences between British and American English

Laurel J. Brinton: The Comment Clause in English

Lieselotte Anderwald: The Morphology of English Dialects: Verb Formation in

Non-standard English

Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair and

Nicholas Smith: Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study

Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö: Early Modern English Dialogues: Spoken

Interaction as Writing

Daniel Schreier, Peter Trudgill, Edgar Schneider and Jeffrey Williams: The

Lesser-Known Varieties of English: An Introduction

Hilde Hasselgård: Adjunct Adverbials in English

Raymond Hickey: Eighteenth-Century English: Ideology and Change

Charles Boberg: The English Language in Canada: Status, History and

Comparative Analysis

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