Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English Preposition Placement 1500-1900

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Introduction ......1 Preposition placement in English .......1 Framework ...................11 2. Methodology ...............19 Precept data Sources ..........24 Usage Corpus ...........24 3. Eighteenth-Century Precept ............56 Attitudes to Preposition Stranding ....56 Connotations..........65 Prescriptive repertoire............82 Nineteenth- Century Context .........90 4. Usage in Early and Late Modern English ....106 Preposition Placement and Clause Type .....106 Diachronic Trends ........128 Register Variation .......128 5. Grammar, Rhetoric and Style .........153 The Long Eighteenth Century .........153 The Early Modern English Period ..........159 Latin and Grammatical Correctness.........187 An Elegant Style ........205 The art of Rhetoric .........136 6. Latent Awareness.........284 John Dryden .......284 Joseph Addison and the Spectator ............284 Joseph addison and the Spectator ...........291 Elizabeth Montagu.........297 Periodical Reviews ......299 Further Evidence .................301