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Literal and metaphoric readings in spatial prepositions

open access: yes, 2016
The goal of this paper is to propose a novel compositional analysis of literal and metaphoric readings in spatial prepositions and prepositional phrases. It is shown that these types of readings emerge as the result of prepositions interacting with other parts of speech, such as verbs, DPs and temporal adverbs (e.g., in one hour).
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Spatial Prepositions in Italian

open access: yes, 2013
KIMURA, Yasuho   +2 more
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Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Hum Behav
Verkerk A   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatial prepositions for original (and richer) meanings

open access: yes
Spatio-temporal prepositions like hasta 'until' find crucially distinct uses across Spanish varieties. In many cases, uses disallowed in more restrictive variants alternate nontrivially with canonical P distribution, raising pressing questions on spatiotemporal prepositions, lexicalized denotational properties, and their potential exploitation in ...
Rasia, Maria Eugenia||   +1 more
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Doubling PPs in Flemish dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Aelbrecht, Lobke, den Dikken, Marcel
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