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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fagard, Benjamin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
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