31.3409, Books: Complex Adpositions in European Languages: Fagard, Pinto de Lima, Stosic, Smirnova (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:48:17
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Complex Adpositions in European Languages: Fagard, Pinto de Lima, Stosic, Smirnova (eds.)

 


Title: Complex Adpositions in European Languages 
Subtitle: A Micro-Typological Approach to Complex Nominal Relators 
Series Title: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/3dVBdso 


Editor: Benjamin Fagard
Editor: José Pinto de Lima
Editor: Dejan Stosic
Editor: Elena Smirnova

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110676938 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 149.99


Abstract:

While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially
prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the
focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study.

The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such
constructions, but also a description of complex adpositions and other complex
nominal relators in a variety of European languages, both Indo-European and
non-Indo-European, including some languages for which this phenomenon had
received little attention, such as Breton and Albanian. Building on synchronic
and diachronic corpus-based investigations, the authors show commonalities and
specificities of these linguistic items across languages, trying to explain
why and how they emerged.

The research presented in this volume confirms the wide-spread use of complex
adpositions in Europe, and the data reviewed in the final discussion suggests
it might be the same in other parts of the world, as well. This book thus
offers not only detailed descriptions of complex nominal relators in fifteen
languages, but also indications of what to look for in other languages, and
how to distinguish between a syntactically free sequence and a genuine complex
nominal relator.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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