The ‘Glaring’ Place of Prepositions: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Scottish Codifiers.
This paper offers new insights into the 18th-century normative tradition, with special reference to the stigmatisation of preposition stranding. It brings to light the role of Scottish codifiers in contrast to English codifiers: works written by Scots contain more critical comments on the use of end...
| Publicado en: | Historiographia Linguistica Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 255 - 293 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co.
2011
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