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False Friends in Learner Corpora: A corpus-based study of English false friends in the written and spoken production…

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False Friends in Learner Corpora: A corpus-based study of English false friends in the written and spoken production… This book is conceived as a contribution to the general understanding of learner language. It presents an innovative approach to the study of English false friends. False friends are a current issue for those learning and working …

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Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach

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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 …

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