[Lingtyp] complex postpositions

[Hartmut Haberland]

Dear Nigel, I do not know if you have looked into Japanese (a grammar or even a dictionary should be enough). Japanese has a very small set of simple postpositions that express what is most conveniently compared to grammatical case (topic, subject, direct object, benefactive, genitive, instrumental) and very few that express temporal (when?) or local relations (comparable to Finnish inessive, ablative, and illative/allative). Everything else has to be expressed by a combination of GenitivePostp+N+InessivePostp like on = in top of, under = in bottom of, after = in behind of, etc. That always struck me as interesting.
Med venlig hilsen
Hartmut
Professor emeritus
[RUC]

Roskilde Universitet
Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab
Universitetsvej 1
DK-4000 Roskilde
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Fra: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> På vegne af Jendraschek Gerd
Sendt: 3. februar 2019 08:23
Til: Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>; LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org
Emne: Re: [Lingtyp] complex postpositions

Dear Nigel,

Stosic, Fagard, Pinto de Lima and Smirnova are in the process of editing a collective volume on complex adpositions in the languages of Europe, to which I am contributing the chapters on Basque and Turkish, which happen to have postpositions. I can send you the draft chapters off-list if you’re interested.

Best,
Gerd

Dr Gerd Jendraschek
Assistant Professor
German Studies
Department of Global Area Studies
Sangmyung University
31066 Cheonan, Chungnam
Republic of Korea


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제목: [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



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