Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context /

Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 302 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 50 Typological studies in language ; v. 50.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Semantics. Pragmatics. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. Pragmatics. Semantics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144691

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Other authors / contributors:	Feigenbaum, Susanne. Kurzon, Dennis.
ISBN:	1588111725 9781588111722 9027229562 9789027229564 9789027297204 9027297207 1282161725 9781282161726 9786612161728 6612161728
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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); Artif.
Other form:	Print version: Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. Instability and the theory of semantic forms
3. Schematics and motifs in the semantics of prepositions
4. The\theoretical status of prepositions
5. Temporal semantics of prepositions in context
6. Prepositions and context
7. Prepositional phrases as noun modifiers in contemporary Hebrew
8. The\Hebrew prepositions mi-/min 'from, of'
9. A\contrastive analysis of French and Hebrew prepositions
10. A\language in change
11. The\French preposition in contact with Hebrew
12. 'Preposition' as functor
13. Prepositions in modern Judeo-Greek (JG) Biblical translations
14. Quddiem and some remarks on grammatical aspects of Maltese prepositions
15. Locative prepositions in language acquisition and aphasia
16. Index