The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

Michael Pace-Sigge

ISBN 10: 1137470305 / ISBN 13: 9781137470300

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

About this Item

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. Num Pages: 208 pages, 59 black & white tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352. . 2015. 1st ed. 2015. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137470305
• ISBN 13: 9781137470300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora.

About the Author

Michael Pace-Sigge is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Finland. He has studied and taught at Liverpool University, UK, where his key research area had been Liverpool English (Scouse). Having been supervised by Michael Hoey, who first introduced the concept of Lexical Priming, Dr Pace-Sigge continues to work on the theory and published Lexical Priming in Spoken English (2013).