TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffmann,Sebastian
TI  - Grammaticalization and English complex prepositions: a corpus-based study 
T2  - Routledge advances in corpus linguistics
SN  - 0415360498
AV  - PE1335 .H64 2005
U1  - 425.7 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Grammaticalization
KW  - Prepositions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Data collection and research methodology --; 3; Complex prepositions : indivisible units or free constructions? --; 4; Grammaticalization and complex prepositions --; 5; Complex prepositions : a diachronic overview --; 6; Complex prepositions in present-day English --; 7; In terms of : a new discourse marker --; 8; Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized? --; 9; Conclusion --; App. I; The texts of the Gutenberg corpus --; App. II; David Lee's genre categorization scheme
ER  -