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Adpositions locatives en français de Côte d’Ivoire, en dioula et en baoulé
Corela, 2006 The analysis proposed here compares certain locative constructions in Ivory Coast French, specifically Jula and Bawle (two Ivorian languages), in order to examine the function of locative adpositions from a contrastive point of view.
Akissi Béatrice Boutin
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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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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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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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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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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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Derivational Relators in Italian
Languages, 2022 The present paper addresses the categorial content of affixes forming a set of denominal adjectives in Italian, arguing that they are substantially the derivational counterpart of oblique case/adpositions.
Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso
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