Adpositions

Adpositions / by Claude Hagège.

Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hagège, Claude, 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Postpositions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Postpositions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions
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Summary:Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Based on an analysis of 350 languages, this pioneering study examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199575008
0199575002
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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