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| ISBN: | 9789004314580
900431458X
9789004314573
9004314571
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| Notes: | "This book is a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, which I defended at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on April 28, 2014."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 22, 2017).
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| Summary: | In 'The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family', Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun 'travers' or the Italian noun 'traverso', previously never analysed from a diachronic perspective. This study enriches our knowledge of the expressions analysed and their functioning in the past, but also in present-day French and Italian, providing diachronic observations regarding functional notions put to the test. Thomas Hoelbeek's work also contributes to a better understanding of the grammaticalisation mechanisms of complex constructions, and shows that typologically related languages may evolve differently in their ways of representing space.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hoelbeek, Thomas. Evolution of complex spatial expressions within the Romance family. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004314573
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| Standard no.: | 10.1163/9789004314580
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