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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 ...
Libert AR.
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Cross-linguistic regularities and learner biases reflect "core" mechanics. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Recent research in infant cognition and adult vision suggests that the mechanical object relationships may be more salient and naturally attention grabbing than similar but non-mechanical relationships.
Brent Strickland, Emmanuel Chemla
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Categorizing adpositions in Kîîtharaka

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
In this paper, I discuss the categorial status of Kîîtharaka adpositions. I demonstrate that there are two main classes of adpositions(to be referred to as Class A and Class B).
Peter Muriungi
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A word order typology of adnominal person [PDF]

Linguistic Typology
This paper investigates cross-linguistic variation in the expression of adnominal person (persn; cf. English “we linguists”) based on a survey of 114 languages, focusing on word order.
Höhn Georg F.K.
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Function words words dӗlja and radi in the Old Russian language: Prepositions, postpositions or something else? [PDF]

Rhema. Рема, 2021
In this article, we try to figure out the linear order rules for the functional words dӗlja and radi as represented in Old Russian texts from the 11th to the 13th century.
E. Sokolov
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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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Uttryck för VÄG med ackusativ singular i sydsamiska

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2023
The use of object-like expressions to encode an extension in space, along which a movement is performed, is generally widespread in Saami as a whole. In this article, the term path refers to such extensions in space. The study deals specifically with the
Torbjörn Söder
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Deictic marking in adpositions in Ap Ma and Waran

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022
Two neighboring languages of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, Ap Ma (Keram) and Waran (Ramu), exhibit an unusual structure in adpositional phrases. In both languages, all postpositions that govern nouns are obligatorily marked with deictic prefixes ...
Don Killian, Russell Barlow
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The Semantics of Locative Adpositions in Amharic

Aethiopica, 2021
This paper intends to describe the semantics of locative adpositions in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. The analysis is based on elicited data that were collected by using Bowerman and Pederson’s (1992) topological relations picture ...
Gashaw Arutie Asaye
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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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