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2008
This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.
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This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.
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Adpositions and adpositional phrases
This chapter examines adpositions and adpositional phrases in Dutch. Section 2 begins with the traditional classification of adpositions based on their position relative to their complements (if any): prePs, postPs, circumPs and intransitive Ps. This is followed by a discussion of the modification possibilities and syntactic uses of adpositional ...Broekhuis, Hans, Corver, Norbert
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2021
Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In many languages, however, adpositions also seem to have
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Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause, most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers, which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns. In many languages, however, adpositions also seem to have
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A crosslinguistic survey of the morphological diversity of adpositions and adpositional phrases
2010AbstractNow that a comprehensive characterization of adpositions (Adps) has been given in Chapter 2, this chapter studies them from the morphological point of view, showing the diversity they exhibit in this respect. This will be done in four steps. Section 3.1 first examines the distribution of Adps in the languages of the world, as viewed by various ...
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Bespreking van H. Broekhuis: Adpositions and adpositional phrases
Nederlandse taalkunde, 2005Adpositions and adpositional ...
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1996
Abstract Parts I and II focused primarily on nouns and noun phrases as the prototypical arguments and verbs as the prototypical predicates. Only in chapter 8 was this perspective opened up somewhat as we considered certain VPs that functioned as arguments and certain nouns that assigned 0-roles.
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Abstract Parts I and II focused primarily on nouns and noun phrases as the prototypical arguments and verbs as the prototypical predicates. Only in chapter 8 was this perspective opened up somewhat as we considered certain VPs that functioned as arguments and certain nouns that assigned 0-roles.
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Grammaticalization of Adpositions: An Introduction
Language and Linguistics, 2018This paper introduces the notion of adpositions as a grammatical category, their classification by means of function and form, and their grammaticalization across languages. It highlights the fact that the boundary between case and adposition is fuzzy because their concepts are not well delineated and, in addition, because there is no consensus as to ...
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Toward a functional typology of adpositions: theoretical implications
Folia Linguistica, 2022Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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