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Categorizing adpositions in Kîîtharaka [PDF]
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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, 2013 Part of the larger Syntax of Dutch series, this volume focuses on the internal makeup and distribution of adpositional phrases in Dutch. It covers such topics as complementation and modification of adpositional phrases, as well as their predicative, attributive, and adverbial uses.
Hans Broekhuis, Broekhuis, Hans
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Why partitive? Possible motivations for the partitive complement of Finnic adpositions
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse AjakiriAdpositions localize an entity (Figure) with respect to another entity (Ground), designated by the complement of the adposition. Most Finnic adpositions are postpositions with a genitive Ground, while prepositions typically have a partitive Ground ...
Tuomas Huumo
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The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions [PDF]
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”).
Pretorius, Erin
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Russian, Swedish, and Finnish adpositions meaning ‘under’ and ‘over’ in temporal constructions [PDF]
Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2019 In Russian, Swedish, and Finnish, adpositions with partly overlapping spatial meanings of ‘under’ and ‘over’ / ‘across’ are used with different temporal meanings, which, from a cognitive linguistic point of view, can be interpreted as evidence for ...
Martina Björklund, Johanna Viimaranta
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Spatial Demonstratives and Perspective Taking in English and Japanese. [PDF]
Cogn SciAbstract There is much debate regarding the extent to which languages express the same spatial parameters or whether spatial communication is essentially diverse. In this paper, we explore “perspective taking” in spatial demonstrative systems as a means of exploring between and within language variation.
Gudde HB, Collier J, Coventry KR.
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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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The Morphosyntax of Case and Adpositions
, 2008 This dissertation addresses the question of the mapping from syntactic structures to morphological cases. Case is a set of variations in the form of the noun or its associated categories (determiners, pronouns, or adjectives) which is sensitive to syntactic context, particularly argument structure, or semantic interpretation, and generally independent ...
Asbury, A.R. +4 more
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The Problem of English Spatial, Non-spatial and Idiomatic Adpositions in Iranian EFL Environment: A Prototypical Approach [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010 Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of ...
Nassim Golaghaei, Firooz Sadighi
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Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê [PDF]
, 2008 Bohoussou A, Skopeteas S. Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê. In: Verhoeven E, Skopeteas S, Shin Y-M, Nishina Y, Helmbrecht J, eds. Studies on Grammaticalization. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]. Vol 205.
Bohoussou, Amani +6 more
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