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Prepositions in Early Modern English argument structure and beyond

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2022
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Zehentner, E., & Hundt, M. (2022). Prepositions in Early Modern English argument structure and beyond. In B. Los, C. Cowie, P. Honeybone, & G. Trousdale (Eds.), English Historical Linguistics : Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL (No. 358; Issue 358, pp. 201–224). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.358.08zeh

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This paper is the first to use a bottom-up, corpus-based, exploratory approach to the full range of prepositions in Early Modern English argument structure. Contrary to what previous research leads us to expect, the overall token frequency of prepositions during this period decreases, and they are not always successful against the older NP-variants. Similarly, our case study challenges earlier suggestions that PP-complements are particularly frequent in second-language varieties of English. With respect to the functions taken on by PP

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  • Los, Bettelou
  • Cowie, Claire
  • Honeybone, Patrick
  • Trousdale, Graeme

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English Historical Linguistics : Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL

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Amsterdam

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201

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224

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English

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2022

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2022-02-15

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Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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0304-0763

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9789027258205

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Chapter 8

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e-Book ISBN 9789027258205

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223 since deposited on 2022-02-15
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Zehentner, E., & Hundt, M. (2022). Prepositions in Early Modern English argument structure and beyond. In B. Los, C. Cowie, P. Honeybone, & G. Trousdale (Eds.), English Historical Linguistics : Change in structure and meaning. Papers from the XXth ICEHL (No. 358; Issue 358, pp. 201–224). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.358.08zeh

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