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Corela, 2017 The genesis of basic colors provides hints to better understand the genesis of spatial terms. The two modes of internal lexical formation (by division and by union) inside the language system can be opposed to external lexical formation that attaches ...
Claude Vandeloise
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Complex Adpositions in European Languages – A Micro-Typological Approach to Complex Nominal Relators
, 2020 International audienceWhile much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study.The chapters of this volume ...
Stosic, Dejan +3 more
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Directions from the GET-GO. On the syntax of manner-of-motion verbs in directional constructions
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 Directional resultatives show puzzling syntactic restrictions. In Romance, broadly speaking, they do not occur at all with manner-of-motion verbs. In Dutch, directional resultatives with mannerof- motion verbs usually force postpositional order in the ...
Marcel den Dikken
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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
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The life cycle of adpositions/ T. Givón, University of Oregon.
, 2021 Includes bibliographical references and index."Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause most commonly indirect object roles.
Givón Talmy
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Place and place names: a unified model. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Ursini FA, Zhang YS.
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The Language Of Space : The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English
, 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 ...
Ursini, Francesco-Alessio
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Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations' marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations' markers and the linguistic change which leads to the ...
Leena Kolehmainen
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Adpositions and presuppositions
This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions.
Alan Libert (21132749)
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General Questions About Topological Relations in Adpositions and Cases
, 1999 The world’s languages encode a diverse range of topological relations. However, cross-linguistic investigation suggests that the relations IN, AT and ON are especially fundamental to the grammaticised expression of space.
Levinson, S., Stephen C. Levinson
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