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The origin of instrumental postpositions in Cahita (Uto-Aztecan): A new account
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023 This paper presents a diachronic analysis of instrumental postpositions in Cahita languages ( Tehueco, Yaqui and Mayo; Uto-Aztecan). Based on historical data from the beginning of the 17th century (Buelna 1890) and hypotheses about the possible bridging
Albert Álvarez González
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Animacy, postpositions, and the spatial cases in Niya Prakrit. [PDF]
J South Asian Lang LinguistIn this paper, it is shown that (i) the synthetic ablative and locative case in Niya Prakrit have come to be restricted to inanimate nouns and pronouns, and that (ii) analytic formations with postpositions are used for animates: (pro)noun + paride ‘from’
Schoubben N.
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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 . A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical
Jane Klavan
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Этническая культура, 2023 The article deals with cases of correspondence of constructions with postpositions to serial verbal constructions, an attempt is made to identify the typological features of verbal serialization in the Mongolian language.
Baiarzhargal Biambazhav
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An Optimality Theoretic Description on the Characteristics of Postpositions in Mandarin Chinese
SAGE Open, 2020 In this paper, we adopt optimality theory to describe some important properties of postpositions. First, they follow the complement in their own projections.
Yu-Ching Tseng
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Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThis article presents a semantic-syntactic analysis of prepositions / postpositions and conjunctions of the Tatar and Russian languages with the semantics of precedence.
Gulnara F. Lutfullina
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Image schematic analysis of Bangla postpositions
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2018 Spatial relationships are fundamental in shaping our interactions with the physical world. They also play a significant role in our construal of abstract ideas in terms of space.
Tanima Bagchi, Rajesh Kumar
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Postpositions in Munduruku (Tupi): Formal and Functional Features
Forma y Función, 2019 The Munduruku people live in the states of Pará and Amazonas, including a handful of residents in Mato Grosso, in Brazil. My research about the language takes place within the Munduruku population of Pará. It is a language of the Tupi stock, that belongs
Dioney M. Gomes
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Preverbs, Postpositions and Indefinite Pronouns in Hittite
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The paper deals with the syntax of preverbs, postpositions (including postpositional phrases) and existential quantifiers/ negative polarity items in Hittite within the Minimalist Program. Their in-situ and ex-situ positions are determined.
Andrej Sideltsev
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Function words words dӗlja and radi in the Old Russian language: Prepositions, postpositions or something else? [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 In this article, we try to figure out the linear order rules for the functional words dӗlja and radi as represented in Old Russian texts from the 11th to the 13th century.
E. Sokolov
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