From case to adposition : the development of configurational syntax in Indo-European languages /
In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role. The first of these configurations was the adposition (preposition or postposition), which developed...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2006
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 280. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- From Case to Adposition; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; AUTHORS' PREFACE; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS; ABBREVIATIONS OF PRIMARY LITERATURE; ABBREVIATIONS OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS; 1. TYPOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN: FROM PARADIGM TO PHRASE; 2. THE SYNTAX OF THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; 3. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS IN ANCIENT GREEK; 4. CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS IN HITTITE; 5. CASES AND POSTPOSITIONS IN INDO-ARYAN; 6. CASES AND PREPOSITIONS IN IRANIAN; 7. ARMENIAN; 8. FROM OLD TO MODERN SLAVIC; 9. BALTIC LANGUAGES; 10. FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN CELTIC.
