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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 Inari Saami does not have a strong written tradition. The current orthography was adopted as recently as the 1990s, and the revitalization process is beginning only now to shift its focus from increasing the number of speakers to strengthening the ...
Petter Morottaja +2 more
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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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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. The article discusses some ways of grammaticalization of the verb bolokh / bolokho / bolha / bolh ‘become, make; be’ in Mongolic languages (Mongolian, Buryat, Oirat and Kalmyk).
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +2 more
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