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benjamins.com>Title: On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases Subtitle: The expression of semantic roles in Ancient Greek Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 67 Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_67 Author: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia Hardback: ISBN: 1588114333, Pages: xii, 366 pp., Price: USD 115.00 Comment: Hardback: ISBN: 9027230773, Pages: xii, 366 pp., Price: EUR 115.00 Abstract: Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics. The historical development of their meaning can shed light on the relati ons among the semantic roles of participants and on the organization of con ceptual space. Ancient Greek allows an in-depth study of such development. The book, based on a wide, diachronically ordered corpus, aims at providing a usage-based analysis of possible patterns of semantic extension, includi ng the mapping of abstract domains onto the concrete domain of space. An an alysis of the Greek data further highlights the interplay between specific spatial relations and the internal structure of the entities involved, and shows how case semantics may account for differences on the referential lev el, rather than merely express clause internal relations. The first chapter contains a typologically based discussion of semantic roles, which sets th e language-specific analysis in a wider framework, showing its general rele vance and applicability. Table of contents Preface ix List of abbreviations xi Introduction Theoretical foundations The semantics of Greek cases Greek prepositions: Patterns of polysemy and meaning extension Conclusions Notes References Name index Subject index Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics Semantics Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (Language code: GKA) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8339.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue