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

by Michael Pace-Sigge

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137470300
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/23/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

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).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Background: From Historical Descriptions of TO and OF to Contemporary Corpus-Based Evidence 
3. OF and TO Usage in Fiction
4. OF and TO in Semi-prepared Speech
5. OF and TO Usage in Spoken Texts
6. Discussion: Usage patterns for OF and TO in British English
7. Implications for the Teaching of English
8. Conclusion