Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage (5th Edition) PDF Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, HAMMER’S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today. This new edition includes: -concise descriptions of the main grammatical phenomena of German and their use …
Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English: Preposition Placement 1500-1900 (Studies in English Language) The preposition is of specific curiosity to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement inside a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the ‘guidelines’ concerning prepositions have modified over time, because of language change, of …
Garner’s Modern English Usage (4th Edition) This ebook is a successor to 3 editions (1998, 2003, 2009) of Garner’s Modern American Usage. With greater than a thousand new entries and greater than 2,300 phrase – frequency ratios, the magisterial fourth version of this ebook – now renamed Garner’s Modern English Usage (GMEU) – displays utilization …
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 …