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Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context
The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives — syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.
[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- PrefaceSusanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon | pp. 1–8
- Instability and the theory of semantic forms: Starting from the case of prepositionsYves-Marie Visetti and Pierre Cadiot | pp. 9–39
- Schematics and motifs in the semantics of prepositionsPierre Cadiot | pp. 41–57
- The theoretical status of prepositions: The case of the “prospective use” of inFranck Lebas | pp. 59–73
- Temporal semantics of prepositions in contextDavid S. Brée and Ian E. Pratt-Hartmann | pp. 75–113
- Prepositions and contextIan E. Pratt-Hartmann and Nissim Francez | pp. 115–126
- Prepositional phrases as noun modifiers in contemporary Hebrew: Grammatical, semantic and pragmatic motivationsEsther Borochovsky and Hava Reppen | pp. 127–143
- The Hebrew prepositions mi-/min ‘from, of’: Same or different? A sign-oriented approachYishai Tobin | pp. 145–169
- A contrastive analysis of French and Hebrew prepositions: The case of sans, bli-belo and leloSusanne Feigenbaum | pp. 171–191
- A language in change: Declined prepositions in spoken Modern Hebrew as a case studyInbar Kimchi-Angert | pp. 193–207
- The French preposition in contact with HebrewMiriam Ben-Rafael | pp. 209–229
- ‘Preposition’ as functor: The case of long in BislamaDennis Kurzon | pp. 231–248
- Prepositions in modern Judeo-Greek (JG) Biblical translationsJulia G. Krivoruchko | pp. 249–267
- Quddiem and some remarks on grammatical aspects of Maltese prepositionsRami Saari | pp. 269–282
- Locative prepositions in language acquisition and aphasiaMark Leikin | pp. 283–297
- Index | pp. 299–302
“This volume certainly may be of interest both to scholars working on general issues of prepositions, wo can appreciate the curious theories proposed, and those working on specific problems, who will appreciate the large amount of empirical material.
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Yuri A. Lander, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, Moscow, in Language 80(4), 2004
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