Adpositions
Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives
Editors
| University of Haifa
| University of Haifa
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
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionDennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler | pp. 1–11
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The contributors | pp. 13–15
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French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute useSilvia Adler | pp. 17–35
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"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 | pp. 37–65
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Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivationsEsther Borochovsky Bar-Aba | pp. 67–83
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A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi-locativesIrena Botwinik-Rotem | pp. 85–114
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Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coupPierre Cadiot and Franck Lebas | pp. 115–132
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Particles and postpositions in KoreanInjoo Choi-Jonin | pp. 133–170
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French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements: A pragma-semantic analysisLidia Fraczak | pp. 171–190
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Prepositional wars: When ideology defines prepositionJulia G. Krivoruchko | pp. 191–208
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"Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languagesDennis Kurzon | pp. 209–227
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Case marking of Turkic adpositional objectsAlan Libert | pp. 229–255
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The logic of addition: Changes in the meaning of the Hebrew preposition im ("with").Tamar Sovran | pp. 257–271
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A monosemic view of polysemic prepositionsYishai Tobin | pp. 273–288
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The development of Classical Armenian prepositions and its implications for universals of language changeChristopher Wilhelm | pp. 289–300
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Author index | p. 301
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Languages index | pp. 303–304
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Subject index | pp. 305–307
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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 & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General