Sách English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition

Title: English Prepositions Explained: Revised edition

Author(s): Seth Lindstromberg

Publisher: John Benjamins

Date: 2010

Pages: 288

Size: 2.84 Mb

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: American English

Contents:

English Prepositions Explained (EPE) is for people who have found that prepositions

are not explained in dictionaries quite well enough. It is addressed to:

teachers of English



translators and interpreters in training



undergraduates in English linguistics programs



studious advanced learners and users of English



EFL/ESL materials writers



anyone who is inquisitive about the English language.



This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

ix

Preface to the second edition

xi

Symbols, abbreviations and features of format

xiii

chapter 1

Introduction and orientation

1

chapter 2

Toward(s), to, in/into, inward, outward, through, out (of),

from (vs off), away (from)

29

chapter 3

On1, off, on2: On the in-/outside, on top (of), back, forward, ahead,

to/on the right/left (of), off, away, along, out, toward(s), about, around,

concerning, under, upon, on the back of

51

chapter 4

In, on1, out, into: During, inside, within

72

chapter 5

Beside, along, against, alongside, aside: To/on the right/left (of)

81

chapter 6

Between, among(st): In between, amid(st), in the midst (of),

in the middle (of), inter-

89

chapter 7

Across (from), opposite (from), on the other side (of), beyond:

Behind, over, at the other end (of)

97

chapter 8

Behind, on the other side (of), in back (of), in front (of): Before,

after, ahead of, in the front/back (of)

103

chapter 9

Above, over: Across, through, via, during, throughout

109

viii

English Prepositions Explained

chapter 10

Around/Round, by, past: Over, all around, all over, all across,

about, on, roundabout

133

chapter 11

By, near, past: Near to, nearby, close (to), next to, around

144

chapter 12

Under, below: Beneath, underneath, at/on the bottom (of), in

156

chapter 13

Back, backward(s): On2, forward, ahead

167

chapter 14

At: In, on1, to, toward(s), by, near, with

173

chapter 15

Against: Near, by, on1, into, at

183

chapter 16

Up, down: Off, out

189

chapter 17

Of: Off, with, at, in, about, from

205

chapter 18

With: For, to, without, together, apart (from)

214

chapter 19

For: To, of

224

chapter 20

To: With, for, against

233

chapter 21

Survey and Index of important abstract notions expressed by prepositions 243

References

263

Glossary

268

General index 271