[Lingtyp] complex postpositions

[Seino van Breugel]

Dear Nigel,

Atong, a Tibeto-Burman language of Northeast India, has a small set of
postpositions, which could be called complex in the sense that they have to
be preceded by one or more enclitics, e.g. the genitive or a combination of
locative and goal (see Chapter 13 of: van Breugel, Seino. 2014. *A grammar
of Atong*. Leiden, Boston: Brill).

As for the origin of the postpositions:
*kənsaŋ* <   *kən=saŋ  *   (back (the body part)=mobilitative/locative)
*dabat* < *da+bat* (prohibitive+to.cross)
*thəlʔ *also exists as a verb meaning 'to.go.very.far'
*gəmən* < ?
*dakaŋ* < ?

Best,

Seino
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On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 9:46 AM Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at ruc.dk> wrote:

> 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.
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> *Fra:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *På vegne af *Jendraschek
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> *Sendt:* 3. februar 2019 08:23
> *Til:* Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>;
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> *Emne:* Re: [Lingtyp] complex postpositions
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> Dear Nigel,
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> 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.
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> Best,
>
> Gerd
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> Dr Gerd Jendraschek
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> *제목**:* [Lingtyp] complex postpositions
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance
>
> Nigel
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> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
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