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Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2023Abstract This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized.
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Adpositions and adpositional phrases in a syntactic perspective
2010AbstractThis chapter focuses on the specific features by which adpositions (Adps) distinguish themselves from other strategies used by languages to build syntactic relationships between units in the framework of sentences and clauses. It considers syntactic facts, some of which are the preferred, or even exclusive, domain, of Adps and Adp-phrases.
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2010
AbstractThis pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan. Adpositions are an almost universal part of speech.
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AbstractThis pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan. Adpositions are an almost universal part of speech.
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Introduction: Complex adpositions and complex nominal relators
, 2020 International audienceIn this introductory chapter, we address the issue of the existence and definition of complex adpositions – and complex nominal relators in general –, and provide a working definition on the basis of the existing literature on the ...
Dejan Stosic
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Adpositions and adpositional phrases
2022Abstract The adpositional system of the Uralic languages reflects the implications and inheritance of SOV word order and the syntactic sphere of inflectional forms. Most Uralic languages only use postpositions or syntactically corresponding relational nouns, whereas the north-western branches, namely Saamic and Finnic, have both ...
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The distribution of labor between adpositions and case within complex spatial PPs
STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2011 This paper discusses a cross-linguistic sample of spatial PPs in languages that both have adpositions and case. It is shown that the distribution of labor within these potentially complex PPs follows from two general principles only.
Sander Lestrade, Joost Zwarts
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2023
Abstract Adpositions are words which typically take a noun phrase as their complement and mark its semantic (e.g. spatial, temporal) or grammatical role within the clause. Although adpositional systems are highly variable and not universal, they often constitute a relatively small word class whose members are usually among the most ...
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Abstract Adpositions are words which typically take a noun phrase as their complement and mark its semantic (e.g. spatial, temporal) or grammatical role within the clause. Although adpositional systems are highly variable and not universal, they often constitute a relatively small word class whose members are usually among the most ...
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