Adpositions and Other Parts of Speech

Libert, Alan Reed

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“…Nevertheless, recent works have discussed distinctions among prepositions, postpositions, and cases (e.g. Hagѐge 2010; Lestrade 2010;Libert 2006Libert , 2013Malchukov and Spencer 2011). Studies on co-verbs (Aikenvhald and Dixon 2006), and liminal categories such as particles and spatial nouns (DeLancey 2005;Levinson 1994Levinson , 1996 have also discussed how these categories can cover spatial senses.…”

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General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

Ursini

2020

The Linguistic Review

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In many languages, it is possible to describe the location of any entity with respect to a landmark object without specifying the exact place that the locatum occupies (e.g. English at in at home). Such vocabulary items usually contrast with items that belong to the same categories but have more restricted senses (e.g. on top of in on top of the shelf). Thus, the degree of “abstractness” that such spatial case markers can convey usually depends on the organization of the lexicon and grammar of spatial terms in each language. The goal of this paper is to explore these properties across a small sample of languages and offer an account of this variation that is connected to previous theories of spatial case markers (e.g. adpositions). Our key proposal is that the morpho-syntactic structure of spatial case markers and their phrases can license a clear division of labour between functional and lexical spatial senses. However, intermediate solutions blurring categories and semantic boundaries are shown to be possible. We formalize this proposal via a fragment of Lexical Syntax, and show that degrees of distinction between ‘functional’ and ‘lexical’ sense types and categories can be modelled via a unified account.

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General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

Ursini

2020

The Linguistic Review

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“…Thus, we bring together contributions from a varied array of European languages, so that a good picture of the different realities involving the emergence and the evolution of CAs may ensue. The background for these studies has been laid out in interesting work relating to complex prepositions and/or their grammaticalization, on the one hand (Lindqvist 1994, Schwenter and Traugott 1995, Di Meola 2000, Cifuentes Honrubia 2003, Hoffmann 2005, and to adpositions on the other (as, e.g., Kurzon & Adler 2008, Hagège 2010, Libert 2013. We aim at widening the object under analysis from the traditional one of complex prepositions to the more embracing one of complex adpositions, thus gaining the advantage of contemplating studies on complex postpositions (and circumpositions), which have been so far neglected, at least as far as their grammaticalization and/or lexicalization are concerned.…”

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“…Research on simple adpositions has been quite wide-ranging, from a theoretical perspective (e.g. Lindqvist 1994, Kurzon & Adler 2008, Libert 2013, and their typological variation has been given some attention already (Svorou 1994, Hagège 2010, Fagard 2010, with a wealth of studies on adpositions in individual languages such that we could not list them all (see e.g. Vaguer 2006 for a non-exhaustive list of 1,535 references on simple adpositions).…”

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Introduction: Complex adpositions and complex nominal relators

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Lima

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Complex Adpositions in European Languages

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“…The Ottoman Turkish Adpositional System In Ottoman Turkish, we also find two sets of adpositional relators: (a) bare postpositions, and (b) relational nouns. It is important to note, however, especially in regard to the former set, that the difficulty of drawing the line between adpositions and other elements (case affixes, adverbs, converbs) that Hagège (2010) discusses in length is, according to Libert (2008Libert ( , 2013, particularly pronounced in the Turkic languages. In this section, I discuss those relators whose adpositional status is widely accepted in the relevant Turkic literature as far as the Ottoman period is concerned.…”

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The Asia Minor Greek Adpositional Cycle

Καρατσαρέας

2016

J Greek Linguist

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This paper examines the interplay of language-internal continuity and external influence in the cyclical development of the Asia Minor Greek adpositional system. The Modern Greek dialects of Asia Minor inherited an adpositional system of the Late Medieval Greek type whereby secondary adpositions regularly combined with primary adpositions to encode spatial region. Secondary adpositions could originally precede simple adpositions ([preposition + preposition + NP ACC ]) or follow the adpositional complement ([preposition + NP ACC + postposition]). Asia Minor Greek replicated the structure of Ottoman Turkish postpositional phrases to resolve this variability, fixing the position of secondary adpositions after the complement and thus developing circumpositions of the type [preposition + NP ACC + postposition]. Later, some varieties dropped the primary preposition se from circumpositional phrases, leaving (secondary) postpositions as the only overt relator ([NP ACC + postposition]) in some environments. In addition, a number of Turkish postpositions were borrowed wholesale, thus enriching the Greek adpositional inventory.

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Adpositions and Other Parts of Speech

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General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

Introduction: Complex adpositions and complex nominal relators

The Asia Minor Greek Adpositional Cycle

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