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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975423003321

Titolo

Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context / / edited by Susanne Feigenbaum, Dennis Kurzon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002

ISBN

9786612161728

9781282161726

1282161725

9789027297204

9027297207

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 302 p. : ill

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 50

Altri autori (Persone)

FeigenbaumSusanne

KurzonDennis

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Prepositions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Semantics

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Instability and the theory of semantic forms -- Schematics and motifs in the semantics of prepositions -- The theoretical status of prepositions -- Temporal semantics of prepositions in context -- Prepositions and context -- Prepositional phrases as noun modifiers in contemporary Hebrew -- The Hebrew prepositions mi-/min 'from, of ' -- A contrastive analysis of French andHebrew prepositions -- A language in change -- The French preposition in contact with Hebrew -- 'Preposition' as functor -- Prepositions in modern Judeo-Greek (JG) Biblical translations -- Quddiem and some remarks on grammatical aspects of Maltese prepositions -- Locative prepositions in language acquisition and aphasia -- Index -- Typological Studies in Language.

Sommario/riassunto

The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive



collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives - syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.