Variation in P comparative approaches to adpositional phrases
"Over the past thirty years, the generative framework has greatly contributed to the study of both the internal and external syntax of spatial adpositions, with the intent-among many other things-of giving a unitary account of their heterogeneous nature and behaviour. Once the Cinderellas of gr...
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Oxford University Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford studies in comparative syntax
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Over the past thirty years, the generative framework has greatly contributed to the study of both the internal and external syntax of spatial adpositions, with the intent-among many other things-of giving a unitary account of their heterogeneous nature and behaviour. Once the Cinderellas of grammar, prepositions have been extensively investigated in the papers collected in Asbury, Gehrke, van Riemsdjik and Zwarts (2008) and Cinque and Rizzi (2010). The major result of these studies was to show that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in UG. This volume constitutes the implementation and the ideal continuation of the seminal proposals in the generative tradition. The papers collected in the first part of the volume not only test these proposals against new (micro-)comparative data, but also shed new light on the relation between spatial expressions and other semantic relations like possession"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 247 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780190931254 978-0-19-093125-4 9780190931247 978-0-19-093124-7 9780190931278 |