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Title Prepositions in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic context / edited by Susanne Feigenbaum, Dennis Kurzon
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages) : illustrations
Series Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 50
Typological studies in language ; v. 50. 0167-7373
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 and Hebrew prepositions; A language in change; The French preposition in contact with Hebrew
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Semantics.
Pragmatics.
Semantics
semantics.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Prepositions
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Pragmatics
Semantics
Voorzetsels.
Prépositions.
Syntaxe.
Sémantique.
Pragmatique.
Form Electronic book
Author Feigenbaum, Susanne.
Kurzon, Dennis
LC no. 2002018541
ISBN 1588111725
9781588111722
9027229562
9789027229564
9789027297204
9027297207
1282161725
9781282161726
9786612161728
6612161728