Adpositions /
Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199575008 0199575002 9780191722578 019172257X |