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The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora: Spoken, Fiction (both 19th C and 20th C) and academic English usage.

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This page is a summary of: The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units, January 2015, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137470317.
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