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On the functions of adpositions - the typological perspective [PDF]
, 2005 This paper tries to examine the functions of adpositions from the typological perspective. Nine different languages including Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian are surveyed for this research.
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
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Towards an Analysis of Complex Motion Event Packaging in South Eastern Huastec (Maya, Mexico)
CogniTextes, 2015 This paper presents an underdescribed way of encoding the Path component of complex motion events in South Eastern Huastec (HSF), a Mayan language spoken in Mexico.
Ana Kondic
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Datives and adpositions in North-Eastern Basque
, 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, Rikardo, R. +1 more
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The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean
Language and CognitionThai and Korean have large inventories of adpositional particles, including source and goal markers. As reported in many languages, Thai and Korean adpositions also prominently exhibit the ‘goal-over-source asymmetry’ at multiple levels.
Kultida Khammee, Seongha Rhee
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Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words? [PDF]
Linguística, 2012 Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived ...
Norval Smith
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Adpositional Supersenses for Mandarin Chinese
CoRR, 2018 This study adapts Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses (SNACS) annotation to Mandarin Chinese and demonstrates that the same supersense categories are appropriate for Chinese adposition semantics. We annotated 15 chapters of The Little Prince, with high interannotator agreement.
Zhu, Yilun +5 more
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WIU1-Event0011 - Wordlist- Adpositions and directionals
Elicitation of adpositions and other words for positions and directions.
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, 2011 This thesis by publication presents a study on English adpositions (e.g. to, in, at, from, in frontof, through). It attempts to offer a solution to the following three outstanding problems, whichare presented in each of the three parts making up the ...
Friedmann, Na'ama, +4 more
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