Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context / edited by Susanne Feigenbaum, Dennis Kurzon.
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 th...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA :
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©2002.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 50. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.