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A new textbook from Rodney Huddlestonand Geoffrey K. Pullum, authors of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language

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Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. PullumUniversity of Queensland University of California, Santa Cruz

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A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar is a groundbreaking new textbookon English sentence structure for students in colleges and universities. Based onthe authors’ highly acclaimed earlier work, The Cambridge Grammar of theEnglish Language, it is up to date and accessible, and contains exercises andspecial usage notes.

Contents1. Introduction; 2. A rapid overview; 3. Verbs, tense, aspect, and mood; 4. Clausestructure, complements, and adjuncts; 5. Nouns and noun phrases; 6. Adjectives andadverbs; 7. Prepositions and preposition phrases; 8. Negation and related phenomena; 9. Clause type: asking, exclaiming, and directing; 10. Subordination and content clauses;11. Relative clauses; 12. Grade and comparison; 13. Non-finite clauses and clauseswithout verbs; 14. Coordination and more; 15. Information packaging in the clause; 16. Morphology: lexemes and their inflectional forms; Further reading; Glossary; Index.

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1 The traditional class of prepositions 130

2 Extending the membership of the class 131

3 Further category contrasts 136

4 Grammaticised uses of prepositions 139

5 Preposition stranding 140

6 The structure of pps 142

7 pp complements in clause structure 145

8 Prepositional idioms and fossilisation 149

Prepositions make up a much smaller class of lexemes than the open

categories of verb, noun, adjective and adverb. There are only about a hundred

prepositions in current use. Traditional grammars list even fewer than that, but

we don’t follow the tradition on this point. Although all words traditionally clas-

sified as prepositions are classified as prepositions in our treatment too, we

recognise a good number of other prepositions, formerly classified as adverbs, or

as ‘subordinating conjunctions’. We begin this chapter with an account of the

category of prepositions as traditionally understood, and then explain why we

have chosen to expand it.

We give in [1] a sampling of the words that (in at least some of their uses) belong

to the category of prepositions.

[1] above across after against at before behind

below between beyond by down for from

in into of off on over round

since through to under up with without

These words share the following properties.

� (a) They take N Ps as complement

In general, words are traditionally analysed as prepositions only if they have

complements with the form of nps. In the following pairs, for example, tradi-

tional grammar accepts the underlined words in [a] as prepositions, but not those

in [b]:

1 The traditional class of prepositions

7 Prepositions and preposition phrases

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• A true 21st-century guide to grammar

• Features include exercises,glossary, bullet-points, boxed notes, and web support

• Building on the authors’ previous authoritative reference grammar

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Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

March 2005

Please order from your local bookseller

A Student’sIntroduction to

EnglishGrammar

www.cambridge.org/huddlestonInspection copies availableeSee inside for more detailse

A new textbook from Rodney Huddlestonand Geoffrey K.Pullum,authors of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language