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Fri Mar 13 2009

Books: Cognitive Science/Semantics/Syntax/Text/Corpus Ling: Beliën

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        1.    Parcival von Schmid, Constructions, Constraints, and Construal: Beliën
Message 1: Constructions, Constraints, and Construal: Beliën
Date: 07-Mar-2009
From: Parcival von Schmid <lotuu.nl>
Subject: Constructions, Constraints, and Construal: Beliën
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Title: Constructions, Constraints, and Construal
Subtitle: Adpositions in Dutch
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series 194
Published: 2008
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Maaike Beliën
Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328681 Pages: 222 Price: Europe EURO 22.48
Abstract:

Many Dutch descriptions of motion events contain adpositions. Often, the
adposition precedes a nominal, in which case it is called a preposition.
There are also constructions in which an adposition follows a nominal. This
type of construction has puzzled linguists for decades. Its grammatical
constituency appears to defy a unified analysis: is the adposition in this
type of construction a postposition, or is it a particle? Previous studies,
relying on constituency tests such as passivization, topicalization, and
auxiliary choice, have left the issue unresolved.

Constructions, Constraints, and Construal: Adpositions in Dutch offers a
new perspective on this long-standing question in Dutch linguistics. Taking
a corpus-based, cognitive-linguistic approach, it hypothesizes that the key
to the construction's grammatical constituency lies in an analysis of its
semantics. The study therefore presents an analysis of the semantic
differences between this type of construction and constructions with
prepositions. It concludes that the adposition following a nominal is a
particle: it is part of a complex separable verb that takes a certain type
of direct object.

This study is of interest to anyone concerned with adpositions
(prepositions, postpositions, particles), grammatical constituency, lexical
and constructional semantics, or the coding of motion events.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                            Semantics
                            Syntax
                            Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Written In: English (eng )

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