Results 61 to 70 of about 938 (154)
A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
wiley +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj
WIU1-Event0011 - Wordlist- Adpositions and directionals
Elicitation of adpositions and other words for positions and directions.
core +1 more source
Les adpositions "spatiales" et le problème de la polysémie
, 2009 Actes du colloque international de Caen (20-22 septembre 2007)International audience" Spatial " adpositions and the problem of polysemyThis paper points to some inadequacies of cognitive analyses of spatial adpositions.
Fortis, Jean-Michel
core +1 more source
Sámi dieđalaš áigečálaThe article presents a survey of the syntax and semantics of the postpositions alde ’on’ and ala ’onto’ in North Saami. In previous descriptions of Saami adpositions, the main focus has always been on the concrete spatial meanings of the adpositional ...
Jussi Ylikoski
doaj +1 more source
Instrumental prepositions and case: Contexts of occurrence and alternations with datives
Glossa, 2017 We will argue that instrumentals are the mirror image of dative/genitive obliques. We propose that both sets of adpositions/cases are elementary predicates, expressing a zonal inclusion (part-whole/possession relation); instrumentals reverse the ...
Ludovico Franco, Maria Rita Manzini
doaj +2 more sources
, 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
core +1 more source