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Title Adpositions : pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives / edited by Dennis Kurzon, Silvia Adler.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Typological studies in language ; v. 74
Typological studies in language ; v. 74.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Adpositions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Introduction; The contributors; French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of th; "Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place; Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations; A closer look at the Hebrew construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of milocatives; Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup.
Summary This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation - prepositions, bu.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Postpositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Postpositions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kurzon, Dennis.
Adler, Silvia.
Other Form: Print version: Adpositions. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027229861 9027229864 (DLC) 2008001428 (OCoLC)190843512
ISBN 9789027290243 (electronic book)
9027290245 (electronic book)
1282105124
9781282105126
9789027229861
9027229864