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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
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Collocational patterning in cross-linguistic perspective : adpositions in English, Nepali, and Russian [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of adpositions in English, Nepali and Russian corpora. Two sets of highly frequent adpositions, those with broadly locative and broadly ablative meaning, are contrasted.
Hardie, Andrew, Mudraya, Olga
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Go above and beyond: Does input variability affect children’s ability to learn spatial adpositions in a novel language? (PCI - RR - stage 1 )

, 2022
This is a repository for the manuscript "Go above and Beyond: Does input variability affect children's ability to learn spatial adpositions in a novel language?" submitted as Registered Report at ...
Elizabeth Wonnacott, Eva Viviani
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Fuomášumit sámegiela adposišuvnnaid funkšuvnnain: ovdamearkan alde– ja ala-postposišuvnnaid ii-lokála geavaheapmi

Sámi dieđalaš áigečála
The 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
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Adpositions

, 2016
Adposition is the name of a part of speech or word class. Although it may not be a familiar term to those outside of linguistics, the name of one of its subsets is: preposition. The latter type of word gets its name from the fact that it (generally) occurs before its complement; that is, the noun (or more correctly noun phrase) which it governs ...
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The Natural Semantic Metalanguage of Old English Compound Adpositions [PDF]

, 2009
Este artículo se centra en el estudio del contenido léxico de una serie de adposiciones complejas en inglés antiguo y los procesos semánticos que las han originado.
Guarddon Anelo, Carmen
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Space and the Vision–Language Interface: A Model-Theoretic Approach

Biolinguistics, 2011
The relation between spatial vision and spatial language has always been a source of controversy. Three problems can be identified as in need of a solution.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Similarity Semantics and Building Probabilistic Semantic Maps from Parallel Texts

Linguistic Discovery, 2010
This paper deals with statistical (non-implicational) semantic maps, built automatically using classical multidimensional scaling from a direct comparison of parallel text data (the Gospel according to Mark) in the domain of motion events (case ...
Bernhard Wälchli
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