• Goal-source asymmetry and Russian spatial prefixes 

      Markovskaya, Evguenia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2006)
      In this paper, I draw on data from Russian to argue for the asymmetry between Goal and Source prepositional phrases. Source prepositional phrases are structurally ambiguous; they can occur both as arguments and adjuncts in certain syntactic contexts. Goal prepositional phrases are unambiguously arguments. I claim that Source prepositions have lexically specified semantics, which determines their ...