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<font face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear Martin, dears others,<br>
<b>sorry</b>, in all the haste I have mixed up my two terms! Please
read 'relational echo' for the functional domain at issue (as opposed
to referential echos that show up on verbs). So, my posting should read:<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Unicode MS">....<br>
sure, it seems to make sense to search for a term that covers the
functional commonalities of synthetic cases and what you call
adpositions. Personally, I frequently refer to this aspect with the
help of the term '<b>relational echoes</b>' (as opposed to <b>referential
echoes</b> that copy properties of referential entities onto the verbal
domain). Relational echoes thus copy inherent verbal properties such as
features of actancy, localization etc. onto the referential domain. The
problem I see is to put pre- and postpostions into a single category
(adpositions). Even though they seem to share certain functional
features they are nevertheless of rather heterogenous nature: As far as
I can see, prepositions stand in a much closer relationship with the
verbal nucleus than postpositions (in fact, I treat prepositions
usually as being a part of the verbal domain). Postpositions, on the
other hand, are strongly referential in nature, often linked to their
head in terms of a covert or overt possessive relation (or in terms of
an appositional relation). Thus the 'relational echo' shows up with
postpositions either through case-marking on the postposition or merely
through the syntactic arrangement. <br>
<br>
Best wishes and sorry again (it's rather hot in my office - perhaps
that's why.....-) ),<br>
Wolfgang </font><font face="Arial Unicode MS"><br>
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