[Lingtyp] complex postpositions

[TasakuTsunoda]

Dear Nigel,

 

    The complex adposition in front of contains a noun (front). It is interesting to note that Japanese has a large number of complex postpositions that contain a verb. I suppose there are works written in English that describe such complex postpositions of Japanese.

    Your posting concerns complex adpositions, but I wish to provide some information on complex conjunctions or complex clause-linkage markers (“CLMS”). Japanese has a large number of complex CLMs that contain a verb. Mie Tsunoda (2018) lists about 50 such complex CLMs and gives examples of a couple of them. Mie Tsunoda (2016) provides a detailed analysis of the semantic, pragmatic and morphological aspects of eleven complex CLMs. These works show that these complex CLMs (involving a verb) express various modal meanings.

 

Tsunoda, Mie. 2016. Verbal inflectional morphology and modality in compound clause-linkage markers in Japanese. Studies in Language 40(4). 815-871.

 

Tsunoda, Mie. 2018. Japanese. In Tasaku Tsunoda (ed.), Levels in clause linkage[:] A crosslinguistic survey (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics Volume 2), 47-75. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

 

Best wishes,

 

Tasaku Tsunoda

 

 

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件名: [Lingtyp] complex postpositions

 

There is a substantial literature on prepositions and postpositions. There is also a growing body of work on complex prepositions, i.e. things like English 'in front of', French 'au dessous de'. To complete the picture I'd be grateful for pointers to studies and/or examples of complex postpositions. 

Thanks in advance

Nigel

 

 

Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
The University of Manchester

 

Linguistics & English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

The University of Manchester

 

 

 

https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html

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