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Semantics of Postpositions with the Meaning ‘Between, Among’ in Mongolic Languages
Oriental Studies, 2021 Introduction. This article is devoted to the semantics of postpositions with the meaning ‘between’ and ‘among’ in the Mongolian languages. Currently, the scholars are increasingly paying attention to studies of the spatial characteristics of various ...
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +3 more
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Features of Postpositions in Chulym Language
Научный диалог, 2017 The article considers several postpositions in Chulym as compared with other Turkic languages. It is noted that despite the fact that their functions have similarities with those of nominal cases, their functional scope is much wider.
F. Başbuğ
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The Spatial Concept ‘Proximity’: Linguistic Expressive Means in Mongolic Languages Reviewed
Монголоведение, 2022 Introduction. The article deals with key lexical and morphological means of expressing the spatial concept of proximity in Mongolic languages. Such lexical means include adjectives, adverbs and verbs, while morphological ones are case forms and ...
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +4 more
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Mandenkan, 2013 This paper examines the polysemy patterns of two postpositions marking class-membership and property assignment in Jeli, a Central Mande language, in terms of metaphorical extensions and iconic motivation.
Holger Tröbs
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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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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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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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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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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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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese
Linguistik Online, 2021 In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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