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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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On the syntax of comitative constructions: the case of Finnish mukana, mukaan ‘with, along’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017 The topic of this article is the syntax of Finnish comitative markers mukana and mukaan ‘with, along’. Comitative markers express accompaniment relations, which are typically conceived of being asymmetrical: the accompanee is the predominant participant,
Krista Ojutkangas
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An Inquiry into the Polysemy of the Preposition "bær" (on) in the Framework of Cognitive Semantics [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2023 In the Persian language, since Old Persian, /bær/ (on) has been one of the adpositions that grammatically and semantically acts as a preposition. Studying the polysemy of /bær/ (on) as a preposition is the subject of this paper, which is in the cognitive
Arsalan Golfam, Nazanin Darvishi Rokni
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A Political Economy Approach to the Grammar of Institutions: Theory and Methods
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 453-471, May 2022., 2022 This article proposes a political economy approach to the grammar of institutions, by building on the study of contracts in economics. First, I argue that more attention needs to be paid to the costs and benefits of institutions, thus allowing researchers to derive empirically testable hypotheses on the evolution of institutions. In this vein, the role
Matia Vannoni
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Directionality and Resultativity: The Cross-linguistic Correlation Revisited
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 Recent approaches to the cross-linguistic variation in the expressions of directed motion assume a tight correlation between adjectival resultative and directed motion constructions (e.g., Beck and Snyder 2001, Mateu and Rigau 2001; 2002, McIntyre 2004 ...
Minjeong Son
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Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021 This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the ...
Tyler M. Heston
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 This paper is part of Peter Svenonius’ Adposition Seminar at the University of Tromsø which was taught in 2005-2006. The main focus was the distinction between locative path and locative place constructions. The aim of this paper is descriptive in nature
Marleen van de Vate
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3 Complex adpositions in Slavic languages: The case of Serbian
, 2020 International audienceThe chapter offers an illustration of the adpositional systems of Slavic languages through both an overview of simple adpositions and an in-depth study of complex adpositions in Serbian, a South-Slavic language.
Stosic, Dejan, Dejan Stosic
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Kas elliptiline (nimisõnata) kaassõnafraas on olemas?
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 Kokkuvõte. Sõnaliigiliselt on kaassõnade ja määrsõnade klass võrdlemisi erinevad. Kaassõnu on keeles suhteliselt väike ja piiratud hulk, neid tekib aja jooksul küll juurde, kuid kaassõnaks grammatiseerumine muudest sõnaliikidest on pikem protsess ...
Ann Veismann
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Two ways of encoding location in Greek: Locative applicatives and prepositions
Glossa, 2016 Cross-linguistically, oblique theta roles such as location can be encoded by both adpositions and applicative morphemes. In this paper we argue that Standard Modern Greek (SMG), a language that encodes location primarily with prepositions, has a set of ...
Evangelia Daskalaki, Marios Mavrogiorgos
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