Mapping Spatial Pps - The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 6

This collection explores the internal structure of prepositional phrases, and finds that phrases composed of spatial prepositions, adverbs, and particles do not have different structures, but merely spell out different parts of the same articulated configuration.

List of contents

• Cinque, Guglielmo "Mapping Spatial PPs: an introduction"


• Koopman, Hilda "Prepositions, Postpositions, Circumpositions, and Particles"


• den Dikken, Marcel "On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs"


• Svenonius, Peter "Spatial P in English"


• Noonan, Máire "À to zu"


• Terzi, Arhonto "Locative Prepositions and Place"


• Aboh, Enoch "The P Route"


• Abraham, Werner "P-Case government, misleading homonymies, and economical PPs"


• Indices

About the author

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Venice. Luigi Rizzi is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena.

Summary

This volume focuses on the internal structure of prepositional phrases, an area that has so far received little attention from the standpoint of cartography. Despite the wide range of data and considerations presented in these essays, the contributors reach a strikingly convergent conclusion: that phrases composed of spatial prepositions, adverbs, and particles do not have different structures, but merely spell out different parts of the same articulated configuration.

Product details

• Authors: Guglielmo Cinque, Guglielmo (Professor of Linguistics Cinque, Guglielmo/ Rizzi Cinque, Luigi Rizzi, Luigi (Professor of Linguistics Rizzi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2010
• EAN: 9780195393668
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539366-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures