What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

This book presents a richly illustrated, hands-on discussion of one of the fastest growing fields in linguistics today. The authors address key methodological issues in corpus linguistics, such as collocations, keywords and the categorization of concordance lines. They show how these topics can be explored step-by-step with BNCweb, a user-friendly web-based tool that supports sophisticated analyses of the 100-million-word British National Corpus. Indeed, the BNC and BNCweb have been described by Geoffrey Leech as «an un-paralleled combination of facilities for finding out about the English language of the present day (Foreword). The book contains tasks and exercises, and is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and experienced corpus users alike.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Neueste Geschichte, Europaische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Universitat Mannheim (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Imperialismus als Kultur - Deutschland und Grossbritannien um 1900, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Seminararbeit soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, wie und mit welchen Methoden der DFV die Bevolkerung zwecks Mitgliedergewinnung zu umgarnen und zu beeinflussen versucht hat. Obgleich die Existenz des Vereins sich bis in die NS-Zeit verfolgen lasst, nach Umbenennung in Deutscher See-Verein (DSV) 1919 und erzwungener Selbstauflosung im Jahre 1934, sollen hierbei die Jahre vor dem 1.Weltkrieg bis zur Flottennovelle von 1912 im Fokus stehen, da der Verein in diesem Zeitraum seine grosste Wirkung entfaltet