Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P

✍ Scribed by Anna Asbury, Jakub Dotlacil, Berit Gehrke, Rick Nouwen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 425
Series: Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today
Edition: 120
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction. Syntax and semantics of spatial P......Page 8
Part I. The general architecture of spatial PPs......Page 40
The fine structure of spatial expressions......Page 42
Projections of P......Page 70
Priorities in the production of prepositions......Page 92
The grammar of complex particle phrases in English......Page 110
Part II. Expressions of directionality......Page 154
The correspondence between directionality and transitivity......Page 156
Pragmatic factors and variation in the expression of spatial goals: The case of into vs. in......Page 182
Complex PPs in Italian......Page 204
On the l-syntax of directionality/resultativity: The case of Germanic preverbs......Page 228
Part III. Locative PPs......Page 258
The distribution and interpretation of adjunct locative PPs......Page 260
Aspect inside place PPs......Page 280
Part IV. Silent Ps......Page 310
The place of place in Persian......Page 312
Why are they different? An exploration of Hebrew locative PPs......Page 338
Silent prepositions: Evidence from free relatives......Page 372
Part V. Grammaticalisation......Page 394
The grammaticalization of prepositional markers in Igbo......Page 396
Index of languages, dialects, and language families......Page 416
Index of authors......Page 418
Index of subjects......Page 422

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