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Basque Primary Adpositions from a Clausal Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 I would like to acknowledge financial support from the projects Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, FFI2011-29218, (INTERSYNSEM), and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2011-26906, as well as to the network Basquedisyn (supported by the Basque ...
Etxepare, Ricardo
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Semantic systems in closely related languages [PDF]
, 2015 In each semantic domain studied to date, there is considerable variation in how meanings are expressed across languages. But are some semantic domains more likely to show variation than others?
Dunn, Michael +2 more
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The nanosyntax of Hungarian postpositions [PDF]
, 2009 This article considers evidence for a Nanosyntactic approach to language from Hungarian PPs. Hungarian postpositions can be divided into classes: those which take a complement without morphologically visible case (dressed postpositions), and those ...
Dékány, Éva
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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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Russian, Swedish, and Finnish adpositions meaning ‘under’ and ‘over’ in temporal constructions
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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Some Grammatical Innovations in the Development of Estonian and Finnish: Forced Grammaticalization; pp. 241-256 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 The term forced grammaticalization (Zwangsgrammatikalisierung) was introduced by Nicole Nau, concerning the inclusion of articles into the grammars and dictionaries of old written Latvian and Estonian. The development of the standard Estonian offers many
Helle Metslang
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Token-based typology and word order entropy: A study based on universal dependencies
, 2019 The present paper discusses the benefits and challenges of token-based typology, which takes into account the frequencies of words and constructions in language use.
Levshina, N.
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Datives and adpositions in North-Eastern Basque [PDF]
, 2011 Many languages show a degree of overlapping between the distinct categories of adpositions and oblique cases. The use of oblique cases very frequently extends to cover semantic roles that are typically expressed by adpositions.
Etxepare, Ricardo, +1 more
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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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