On preposition repetition: A study in the history of syntactic government in Old Russian

Klenin, Emily

doi:10.1007/bf02527970

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“…At least in Biblical Hebrew, the repetition of prepositions can occur not only with conjoined noun phrases but also with nouns in apposition [Garr 2004: 176-177]. As far as I am aware, outside of Hebrew this feature is attested only in Old Russian, where the use of preposition repetition is significantly wider than only with conjuncts [Worth 1982, Klenin 1989, Zaliznyak 2004.…”

Section: Preposition Repetition In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Beside Old Russian, the phenomenon is also known, although to a lesser extent, in Old Czech, Old Serbian and Lithuanian [Worth 1982: 495] and can also occur in modern Russian [Klenin 1989: 188, Satyukova 2014. Moreover, preposition repetition exists in modern French, where "before nouns, repetition is almost universal with de, à, and en, and also with sur, sous, dans, sans, and comme" [Bissel 1944: 199].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Preposition Repetition in Tocharian

Kuritsyna

2016

Indo Eur Linguist

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The paper is devoted to the Tocharian phenomenon of preposition repetition, which occurs when a preposition governs conjuncts. This phenomenon is well known in Old Russian, but it is also described for some other ancient and modern languages, e.g. Latin, Greek, Hebrew and modern French. In the majority of these languages, the occurrence of reiterated prepositions is optional. This is different in Tocharian: although there are cases of both repetition and nonrepetition of prepositions with conjuncts, repetition seems to be obligatory. On the basis of an analysis of all available contexts, it will be argued that preposition repetition in Tocharian is a regular syntactic mechanism unless metrical characteristics of particular verse texts cause omission of the preposition.

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Section: Preposition Repetition In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Preposition Repetition In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%