15.2082, Qs: Sino-Tibetan Conf; Romance Prepositions

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-2082. Fri Jul 16 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.2082, Qs: Sino-Tibetan Conf; Romance Prepositions

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1)
Date:  Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Grace Wiersma <gwiersma at mit.edu>
Subject:  Searching paper titles from 34th STC in Kunming

2)
Date:  Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Ioana-Ruxandra Dascalu<ioana_dascalu2000 at yahoo.ca>
Subject:  Prepositions

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Grace Wiersma <gwiersma at mit.edu>
Subject:  Searching paper titles from 34th STC in Kunming

 I am still interested in any information on the 34th Sino-Tibetan
Conference in Kunming: program, abstracts, or proceedings, including
any plans for publication of the latter. If anyone else is interested
in details of that meeting, you are welcome to get in touch off list
and I can pass you whatever info I receive. Or, if I receive many
queries about the Kunming meeting/proceedings, I will post the
information to Linguist. Many thanks! Grace Wiersma

Language-Family:  Sino-Tibetan; Code: ST


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Date:  Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Ioana-Ruxandra Dascalu<ioana_dascalu2000 at yahoo.ca>
Subject:  Prepositions

Hello,

I work on a subject concerning the evolution of prepositions from
Latin to Romance languages and I need your advice.

I have used as reference bibliography Pottier's "Systématique des
éléments de relations" (1962) and Cervoni's "La préposition" (1991),
which is much endowed to the psychosystematic research.  I need to
find further bibliography on preposition, so that I can make up a
clear system with precise principles.

I would be grateful if someone could suggest even Indo-european
treatises on the subject. Unhappily external circumstances have
prevented me lately from working on Indo-European and ancient Greek,
but any similar (bibliographical) hint could help me to understand the
parameters of evolution, even cognitive mechanisms of organizing the
prepositional system.

Thanks,
Ioana


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