Adpositions

Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives

Editors

Dennis Kurzon

| University of Haifa

Silvia Adler

| University of Haifa

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This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.

[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.74

Table of Contents

Introduction Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler	1–11
The contributors	13–15
French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute use Silvia Adler	17–35
"Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place prepositional phrases in tandem? David J. Allerton	37–65
Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations Esther Borochovsky Bar-Aba	67–83
A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi-locatives Irena Botwinik-Rotem	85–114
Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup Pierre Cadiot and Franck Lebas	115–132
Particles and postpositions in Korean Injoo Choi-Jonin	133–170
French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements: A pragma-semantic analysis Lidia Fraczak	171–190
Prepositional wars: When ideology defines preposition Julia G. Krivoruchko	191–208
"Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languages Dennis Kurzon	209–227
Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects Alan Libert	229–255
The logic of addition: Changes in the meaning of the Hebrew preposition im ("with"). Tamar Sovran	257–271
A monosemic view of polysemic prepositions Yishai Tobin	273–288
The development of Classical Armenian prepositions and its implications for universals of language change Christopher Wilhelm	289–300
Author index	301
Languages index	303–304
Subject index	305–307

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Fagard, Benjamin, José Pinto de Lima & Dejan Stosic

2019. Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes. Revue Romane. Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 54:1 ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Semantics

Syntax

Pragmatics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008001428 | Marc record