Simon Preston

List of John Benjamins publications for which Simon Preston plays a role.

Journal

Articles

Mahlberg, Michaela, Catherine Smith and Simon Preston 2015 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novelsCurrent Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional… read more
Mahlberg, Michaela, Catherine Smith and Simon Preston 2013 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novelsCurrent issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional… read more