Adpositions : function-marking in human languages / Claude Hagege.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hagège, Claude, 1936-

Series:

• Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
• Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Grammar, Comparative and general--Prepositions.
• Grammar, Comparative and general--Postpositions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan. Adpositions are an almost universal part of speech. English has prepositions; some languages, such as Japanese, have postpositions; others have both; and yet others kinds that are not quite either. As grammatical tools they mark the relationshipbetween two parts of a sentence: characteristically one element governs a noun or noun-like word or phrase while th

Contents:

• Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1. Definition and brief illustration of adpositions; 1.2. On some aspects of the present state of research on Adps; 1.3. The scope and aims of this book; 1.4. The book's approach; 1.5. The book's argument; 1.6. Intended readership; 2 Towards a comprehensive characterization of adpositions; 2.1. A general definition of Adps; 2.2. On the relationship between Adps and case affixes; 2.2.1. Common and rare strategies serving the same function as Adps and case affixes; 2.2.2. A contrastive examination of Adps and case affixes
• 2.2.3. Complex Adps as associations of an Adp and a case affix2.3. Adps and governed terms; 2.3.1. Adps vs. adverbs; 2.3.2. The various types of terms Adps may govern; 2.3.3. Size of the governed term; 2.4. On word-types that might be mistaken for Adps; 2.4.1. Verb-phrase-internal word-types that might be confused with Adps; 2.4.2. Verb-phrase-external word-types that might be confused with Adps; 2.5. Adps and Adp-phrases as sources of further grammaticalization; 2.5.1. Adps in a diachronic perspective; 2.5.2. Adp-phrases as sources of new grammatical units
• 2.6. Problems of terminology: adposition, relator, case-marker, flag, functeme2.6.1. Searching for a cover term for Adp and case; 2.6.2. Justifying the term adposition; 3 A crosslinguistic survey of the morphological diversity of adpositions and adpositional phrases; 3.1. On the crosslinguistic distribution of Adps; 3.1.1. Problems due to the scarcity of available material and to disagreement between authors; 3.1.2. Differences between Adps and case systems in terms of geographical spread and language families; 3.2. Main types of Adps: prepositions, postpositions, ambipositions
• 3.2.1. Prs vs. Pos3.2.2. The phenomenon of ambipositions; 3.2.3. On some positional features of Adps in various languages; 3.3. On special morphological features of Adps and Adp-phrases; 3.3.1. Simple Adps; 3.3.2. Compound Adps; 3.3.3. Adps and Adp-phrases in relationship with various other elements; 3.4. Adps and the main lexical categories: verbs and nouns; 3.4.1. Adps as an important category, on a par with verbs and nouns. X-bar theory, cognitive grammar; 3.4.2. Adps as a clue to a theory of the category and its cognitive implications; 3.4.3. Adps and grammaticalization
• 3.4.4. Adps and verbs3.4.5. Adps and nouns; 3.4.6. On some verbal and nominal features of Adps; 4 Adpositions and adpositional phrases in a syntactic perspective; 4.1. The contribution of Adp-phrases to the relationship between verbal predicates and core vs. peripheral (circumstantial) complements; 4.1.1. On various types of Adp-phrases depending on verbal predicates; 4.1.2. Adps and the core-peripheral polarity; 4.1.3. Adps and subordination; 4.1.4. Unmarked core and non-core complements; 4.2. Adp-phrases as adnominal complements
• 4.2.1. Adnominal Adp-phrases directly associated, as dependent elements, to nouns

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-358) and indexes.
• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9786612544255
• 9780191573460
• 0191573469
• 9781282544253
• 128254425X

OCLC:

663156917