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Hoffmann, Sebastian. 2005. Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-based Study. London & New York: Routledge.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
Chapter overview 3
2 Data collection and research methodology
Introduction 6
Diachronic sources 7
Present-day English: the British National Corpus 17
Search the data 20
A frequency list of complex prepositions 23
3 Complex prepositions: indivisible units or free considerations?
Introduction 25
An overview of grammars 26
Syntactic evidence against complex prepositions:
Seppanen et al. (1994) 31
Seppanen et al.(1994): some methodological considerations 33
The status of complex prepositions: corpus evidence 35
In favour of unity: complex prepositions exists! 49
4 Grammaticalization and complex prepositions
Introduction: Language change 51
A case study: the grammaticalization of in view of 53
The status of complex prepositions as elements of grammar 59
5 Complex prepositions: a diachronic overview
Introduction 60
Early complex prepositions 63
Complex prepositions eatablished between 1500 and 1700 77
Complex prepositions established after 1700 86
Grammaticalization and corpus data 93
6 Complex prepositions in Present-day English
Introduction 95
General distribution 97
The distributional characteristics of some individual
complex prepositions 103
Interpreting distributional data: conceptual frequency and
style 107
The case of concession: in spite of and its variants 110
Conclusions 118
7 In terms of: a new discourse marker
Introduction 120
Historical development 120
Present-day use 124
In terms of in spoken language 125
Summary and conclusion 138
8 Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized?
Introduction 140
The data 141
The importance of frequency in grammaticalization 144
Frequency and saliency 148
Grammaticalization by analogy 152
Low-frequency grammaticalization phenomena and corpus
data 154
Summary and conclusion 164
9 Conclusion
The status of complex prepositions as syntactic units 166
Complex prepositions and grammaticalization theory 169
The use of complex prepositions 173
Outlook:suggestions for further research 173
Appendix I: the texts of the Gutenberg Corpus 175
Appendix II: David Lee's genre categorization scheme 185
Notes
Biblography
Author index
Subject index
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
Chapter overview 3
2 Data collection and research methodology
Introduction 6
Diachronic sources 7
Present-day English: the British National Corpus 17
Search the data 20
A frequency list of complex prepositions 23
3 Complex prepositions: indivisible units or free considerations?
Introduction 25
An overview of grammars 26
Syntactic evidence against complex prepositions:
Seppanen et al. (1994) 31
Seppanen et al.(1994): some methodological considerations 33
The status of complex prepositions: corpus evidence 35
In favour of unity: complex prepositions exists! 49
4 Grammaticalization and complex prepositions
Introduction: Language change 51
A case study: the grammaticalization of in view of 53
The status of complex prepositions as elements of grammar 59
5 Complex prepositions: a diachronic overview
Introduction 60
Early complex prepositions 63
Complex prepositions eatablished between 1500 and 1700 77
Complex prepositions established after 1700 86
Grammaticalization and corpus data 93
6 Complex prepositions in Present-day English
Introduction 95
General distribution 97
The distributional characteristics of some individual
complex prepositions 103
Interpreting distributional data: conceptual frequency and
style 107
The case of concession: in spite of and its variants 110
Conclusions 118
7 In terms of: a new discourse marker
Introduction 120
Historical development 120
Present-day use 124
In terms of in spoken language 125
Summary and conclusion 138
8 Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized?
Introduction 140
The data 141
The importance of frequency in grammaticalization 144
Frequency and saliency 148
Grammaticalization by analogy 152
Low-frequency grammaticalization phenomena and corpus
data 154
Summary and conclusion 164
9 Conclusion
The status of complex prepositions as syntactic units 166
Complex prepositions and grammaticalization theory 169
The use of complex prepositions 173
Outlook:suggestions for further research 173
Appendix I: the texts of the Gutenberg Corpus 175
Appendix II: David Lee's genre categorization scheme 185
Notes
Biblography
Author index
Subject index
