Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context / edited by Susanne Feigenbaum, Dennis Kurzon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feigenbaum, Susanne.

Kurzon, Dennis.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 50.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Prepositions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

vi, 302 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Summary:

The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives - syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.

Contents:

Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Instability and the theory of semantic forms

Schematics and motifs in the semantics of prepositions

The theoretical status of prepositions

Temporal semantics of prepositions in context

Prepositions and context

Prepositional phrases as noun modifiers in contemporary Hebrew

The Hebrew prepositions mi-/min 'from, of '

A contrastive analysis of French andHebrew prepositions

A language in change

The French preposition in contact with Hebrew

'Preposition' as functor

Prepositions in modern Judeo-Greek (JG) Biblical translations

Quddiem and some remarks on grammatical aspects of Maltese prepositions

Locative prepositions in language acquisition and aphasia

Index

Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161728

9781282161726

1282161725

9789027297204

9027297207

OCLC:

70755427