English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses

by R M W Dixon and R.M.W. Dixon

Book Overview

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional verbs respectively. In Part II, each chapter deals with a set of related prepositions, providing an integrated account of the meanings for each, and explaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198868715
• ISBN13: 9780198868712
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"