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Breaking through: How Force Dynamic Strength Varies in Finnish Adpositional ­Construc­tions with the Adposition läpi ’through’; pp. 30-49 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2013
This paper is a study on the degree of force dynamics displayed by three Finnish adpositional constructions where the path adposition läpi ’through’ can be used: prepositional, postpositional and quasi-adpositional (with a locative-case marked ...
Csenge Fekete, Tuomas Huumo, Kersten Lehismets   +2 more
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A survey of Mende adpositions

Mandenkan
While a number of Mende grammars have been written (Aginsky 1935; Innes 1967; Spears 1967; Brown 1982), there is no systematic treatment of its adpositional system.
Jason Smith
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Var and Manəstən Adpositions in Gilaki Language [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020
In Gilaki language, propositions like, "var / vir, virja, bija" are used to transfer the meaning "near, beside, with, by side of ...". These propositions, in addition to concept "place", also signify the concept of accompaniment. This paper is an attempt
Elahe Hoseyni Matak, Ehsan Changizi
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On the interpretation of proper temporal adverbs in Italian

Isogloss, 2022
In this paper, we will provide a N-to-D analysis able to account for the punctual vs. habitual reading of proper temporal names in Italian, focusing on names of days, which clearly signal a difference in their possible aspectual encoding at the ...
Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso
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Lexical and functional adpositions: the view from of in Old and present-day English

Glossa, 2022
This article addresses the distinction amongst adpositions between those adpositions which are lexical and those which are functional. The article uses a corpus linguistic approach to address outstanding questions: whether there are two distinct ...
Roxanne Taylor
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A typological rarum in Mande languages: Argument-predicate reversal in nominal predication

Mandenkan, 2022
After a typological overview of the nominal predication constructions found in the Mande languages, this article describes and analyzes in more detail a phenomenon found in the nominal predication constructions of Mandinka and some other Mande languages ...
Denis Creissels
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The grammaticalization path DEICTIC SPATIAL ADVERB > ADPOSITION

Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023
In addition to the grammaticalization of nouns and verbs into adpositions, which has been widely discussed in the grammaticalization literature, this paper identifies and describes a much less well known grammaticalization path, by which deictic spatial
Denis Creissels
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Investigating the Components of Word Order in Khorramabad Lori Language [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021
Khorramabad Lori language is one of the languages of southwest of Iran and like other languages it has its own grammatical and typological features. Today, because of the effect of Persian on Lori, as an endangered language, it goes to disappear and this
Fateme Akoondi, Marziye Sanaati
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The Emergence of Accusative Case in Copala Triqui

Linguistic Discovery, 2022
This paper argues that the noun ‘body’, the accusative particle, and dative preposition man are synchronically three different parts of speech in modern Copala Triqui.
George Aaron Broadwell
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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]

SpringerPlus, 2016
This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
openaire   +2 more sources