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Article: Towards a more analytic expression of grammatical relationships: the use of prepositions and adverbs in early English correspondence.(Critical Essay)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- August 6, 2002
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ABSTRACT
The focus of my paper is syntactic. It analyses different functions and positions of uninflected words, more precisely prepositions and adverbs, in fifteenth-century English correspondence. By Late Middle English grammatical relationships and meanings previously expressed by means of affixation (inflectional endings and prefixes) had been largely taken over by prepositions and adverbial particles which had become necessary elements in most noun and verb phrases.
Due to their analytic character, constructions containing prepositional and phrasal verbs have been considered of particular interest and are analysed in considerable detail in the ...