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  title info:
    title: Complex adpositions in European languages
    sub title: a micro-typological approach to complex nominal relators
  name:
    name part: Fagard, Benjamin
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 503 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study.The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions, but also a description of complex adpositions and other complex nominal relators in a variety of European languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European, including some languages for which this phenomenon had received little attention, such as Breton and Albanian. Building on synchronic and diachronic corpus-based investigations, the authors show commonalities and specificities of these linguistic items across languages, trying to explain why and how they emerged.The research presented in this volume confirms the wide-spread use of complex adpositions in Europe, and the data reviewed in the final discussion suggests it might be the same in other parts of the world, as well. This book thus offers not only detailed descriptions of complex nominal relators in fifteen languages, but also indications of what to look for in other languages, and how to distinguish between a syntactically free sequence and a genuine complex nominal relator.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Complex adpositions and complex nominal relators -- 1 Complex adpositions in Romance: Emergence and variation -- 2 Complex adpositions in three West Germanic Languages: German, Dutch, and English -- 3 Complex adpositions in Slavic languages: The case of Serbian -- 4 Complex prepositions in Breton -- 5 On complex adpositions in Modern Greek -- 6 Complex prepositions in Albanian: A first assessment -- 7 What makes a complex postposition: The cyclic development of postpositions in Estonian -- 8 Complex and simple postpositions: The split in Permic -- 9 Case marking and complex adpositions in Basque -- 10 Structure and origin of Turkish adpositions -- 11 A chapter on compound prepositions in Maltese: prep-prep combinations and related issues -- 12 Complex adpositions in Europe and beyond: A synthesis -- Index -- Language Index
  note: edited by Benjamin Fagard [and 3 others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Prepositions
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Postpositions
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Nominals
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Nominals
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Postpositions
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Prepositions
  classification: P285 .C66 2020
  classification: 415
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Complex Adpositions in European Languages
    origin info:
      publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
    identifier: (DLC) 2020946661
    identifier: (OCoLC)1202624505
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Empirical approaches to language typology ; 65
  identifier: 9783110676938
  identifier: 3110676931
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: OHX
    record creation date: 201107
    record change date: 20250318215153.4
    record identifier: in00004411240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng