The life cycle of adpositions /
"Adpositions are used, universally, to mark the roles of nominal participants in the verbal clause most commonly indirect object roles. Practically all languages seem to have such markers which begin their diachronic life as lexical words -- in this case either serial verbs or positional nouns....
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Main Author: | Givón, Talmy, 1936- (Author) |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2021]
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
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