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THE ENGLISH POSTPOSITIONS AS WORD-FORMATION AND GRAMMATICAL COMPONENTS-CONCEPTS

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2016
Using cognitive-conceptual analysis, the variant of contensive correlation in verb formation of the English phrasal verbs and Russian synthetic perfective verbs with prefixes are considered.
Valeriy Veorgievich Shabaev
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Postpositions et détermination en buamu (langue gur) [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé: Cet article porte sur certaines unités linguistiques du buamu, généralement traités comme des postpositions. Ces unités forment un inventaire fermé de noms simples renvoyant à des parties du corps ou de l’espace.
Roland BICABA & Abel OUEDRAOGO
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Preverbs, Postpositions and Indefinite Pronouns in Hittite [PDF]

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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Case Suffixes and Postpositions in Hungarian [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceThis paper examines the morpho-syntactic puzzle of case suffixes and postpositions that Hungarian displays. Although these two categories show distributional similarities, they are distinguishable from a morphological and a ...
Thuilier, Juliette
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Event Segmentation in Language and Cognition. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract A hallmark of human cognition is the ability to segment streams of dynamic stimuli into discrete event units. Currently, most of the evidence about event segmentation comes from English speakers. Could cross‐linguistic differences in how events are encoded affect how speakers of different languages form cognitive event units?
Lee SH, Ünal E, Papafragou A.
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On body-part nouns and the expression of spatial and locative reference in Dagbani

Topics in Linguistics, 2020
This paper examines the linguistic means by which spatial relations are expressed in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in the northern region of Ghana (West Africa).
Issah Samuel Alhassan
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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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Deictic marking in adpositions in Ap Ma and Waran

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022
Two neighboring languages of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, Ap Ma (Keram) and Waran (Ramu), exhibit an unusual structure in adpositional phrases. In both languages, all postpositions that govern nouns are obligatorily marked with deictic prefixes ...
Don Killian, Russell Barlow
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Comitative and Terminative in Votic and Lower Luga Ingrian; pp. 241-257 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2014
The paper addresses the status of the comitative and terminative in contemporary Votic and Lower Luga Ingrian. In published sources on Votic, both markers were qualified in the same way: either as case markers or as postpositions.
Elena Markus, Fedor Rozhanskiy
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A Collocation-based approach to Nepali postpositions

, 2008
Using the Nepali National Corpus, a collocation-based technique is applied to the categorization of Nepali postpositions. Ergative le, accusative lāī, and genitive ko/kā/kī are frequently considered in the literature to be part of the Nepali nominal ...
Hardie, Andrew
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