Chapter 7
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How English prepositions became post-verbal clitics
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.2Chaucer (1340–1400)
- 7.3Malory (1410–1471)
- 7.4Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- 7.5Twentieth Century English
- 7.5.1Mid-Twentieth-Century fiction: Elmore Leonard
- 7.5.2Oral narrative
- 7.5.3Functional distribution of post-verbal prepositions in spoken English
- 7.6Discussion
- 7.7Closure
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Notes