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dc.contributor.authorSvenonius, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T11:31:16Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T11:31:16Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractMany languages have specialized locative words or morphemes translating roughly into words like ‘front,’ ‘back,’ ‘top,’ ‘bottom,’ ‘side,’ and so on. Often, these words are used instead of more specialized adpositions to express spatial meanings corresponding to ‘behind,’ ‘above,’ and so on. I argue, on the basis of a cross-linguistic survey of such expressions, that in many cases they motivate a syntactic category which is distinct from both N and P, which I call AxPart for ‘Axial Part’; I show how the category relates to the words which instantiate it, and how the meaning of the construction is derived from the combination of P[lace] elements, AxParts, and the lexical material which expresses them.en
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dc.identifier.citationNordlyd. Tromsø University working papers on language & linguistics 33(2006) nr. 1 s. 49-77en
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 367514
dc.identifier.issn0332-7531
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/1877
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_1637
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
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dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::General linguistics and phonetics: 011en
dc.titleThe Emergence of Axial Partsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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