Adpositions

Adpositions

by Hagège, Claude

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Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.

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  • Full title :Adpositions / by Claude Hagège.

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Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.

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  • Publication Date:2010.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199575008, 0199575002
  • oclc:ocn638329717
  • LC Classification:P285
  • Dewey Decimal:415.7

Table of Contents

Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Definition and brief illustration of adpositions -- 1.2. On some aspects of the present state of research on Adps -- 1.3. The scope and aims of this book -- 1.4. The book's approach -- 1.5. The book's argument -- 1.6. Intended readership -- 2 Towards a comprehensive characterization of adpositions -- 2.1. A general definition of Adps -- 2.2. On the relationship between Adps and case affixes -- 2.2.1. Common and rare strategies serving the same function as Adps and case affixes -- 2.2.2. A contrastive examination of Adps and case affixes.

2.2.3. Complex Adps as associations of an Adp and a case affix -- 2.3. Adps and governed terms -- 2.3.1. Adps vs. adverbs -- 2.3.2. The various types of terms Adps may govern -- 2.3.3. Size of the governed term -- 2.4. On word-types that might be mistaken for Adps -- 2.4.1. Verb-phrase-internal word-types that might be confused with Adps -- 2.4.2. Verb-phrase-external word-types that might be confused with Adps -- 2.5. Adps and Adp-phrases as sources of further grammaticalization -- 2.5.1. Adps in a diachronic perspective -- 2.5.2. Adp-phrases as sources of new grammatical units.

2.6. Problems of terminolo…

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Subjects

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Pos… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Pre… Postpositions Prépositions

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Hagège, Claude

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