Complex adpositions in European languages : a micro-typological approach to complex nominal relators /
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 als...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Series: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
65. |
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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