LINGUIST List 15.2082

Fri Jul 16 2004

Qs: Sino-Tibetan Conf; Romance Prepositions

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  1. Grace Wiersma, Searching paper titles from 34th STC in Kunming
  2. Ioana-Ruxandra Dascalu, Prepositions

Message 1: Searching paper titles from 34th STC in Kunming

 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Grace Wiersma <gwiersmamit.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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Message 2: Prepositions

 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ioana-Ruxandra Dascalu <ioana_dascalu2000yahoo.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 "Syst�matique des
�l�ments de relations" (1962) and Cervoni's "La pr�position" (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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