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Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler, eds. 2008. Adpositions. Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives. (Typological Studies in Language 74). John Benjamins. viii+307 pp
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

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.

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