
Variation in P
Comparative Approaches to Adpositional Phrases
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 24. January 2020
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256 pages
978-0-19-093125-4 (ISBN)
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Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal grammar. The papers collected in the first part of this volume not only test these proposals against new comparative data, but also shed light on the relation between spatial expressions and other semantic relations like possession. The second part of the volume explores the role of prepositions in non-spatial environments as well as in more general phenomena like verbal affixation, ellipsis, and complementation.
By drawing on evidence from less studied languages, and by considering prepositional syntax in interaction with clausal syntax as well as within prepositional phrases, Variation in P refines and develops theories introduced by previous generative studies.
By drawing on evidence from less studied languages, and by considering prepositional syntax in interaction with clausal syntax as well as within prepositional phrases, Variation in P refines and develops theories introduced by previous generative studies.
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English
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New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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3 illustrations
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
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395 gr
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978-0-19-093125-4 (9780190931254)
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Persons
Jacopo Garzonio is Assistant Professor at the University of Padova.
Silvia Rossi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main.
Silvia Rossi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main.
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Assistant Professor of LinguisticsAssistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Padua
Postdoctoral Researcher in LinguisticsPostdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main
Content
Variation in P: An Introduction
Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi
Part I: (Micro)variation in PPs: Refining the fine structure of PPs
Chapter 1: Locatives in Shonda and Luganda
Pavel Caha & Marina Pantcheva
Chapter 2: Case Variation in Eastern Polynesian Spatial PPs
David Medeiros
Chapter 3: AxParts and Case in Complex PPs: Microvariation in Italian dialects
Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi
Chapter 4: At the doctor's: prepositional 'where' in Southern Italian dialects
Nicola Munaro & Cecilia Poletto
Part II: Ps beyond PPs: Variation in P-related phenomena
Chapter 5: P and the Emergence of the Infinitival Left Periphery
Joachim Sabel
Chapter 6: Mutation in Spatial Deixis (Dx): "PPs" in Blackfoot and Plains Cree*
Tomio Hirose, Rose-Marie Dechaine, and Heather Bliss
Chapter 7: Cross-linguistic variations in the layered structure of PP: Evidence from PP internal NP-ellipsis
Hisako Takahashi
Chapter 8: Comitative P
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Marco Nicolis & Stanca Somesfalean
Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi
Part I: (Micro)variation in PPs: Refining the fine structure of PPs
Chapter 1: Locatives in Shonda and Luganda
Pavel Caha & Marina Pantcheva
Chapter 2: Case Variation in Eastern Polynesian Spatial PPs
David Medeiros
Chapter 3: AxParts and Case in Complex PPs: Microvariation in Italian dialects
Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi
Chapter 4: At the doctor's: prepositional 'where' in Southern Italian dialects
Nicola Munaro & Cecilia Poletto
Part II: Ps beyond PPs: Variation in P-related phenomena
Chapter 5: P and the Emergence of the Infinitival Left Periphery
Joachim Sabel
Chapter 6: Mutation in Spatial Deixis (Dx): "PPs" in Blackfoot and Plains Cree*
Tomio Hirose, Rose-Marie Dechaine, and Heather Bliss
Chapter 7: Cross-linguistic variations in the layered structure of PP: Evidence from PP internal NP-ellipsis
Hisako Takahashi
Chapter 8: Comitative P
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Marco Nicolis & Stanca Somesfalean