Synopses & Reviews
Mapping Spatial PPs focuses on a particular aspect of the internal syntax of prepositional phrases that has been relatively neglected in previous studies: the fine-grained articulation of their structure. With contributions from top scholars in the field, this volume investigates such components as direction, location, axial part, deictic center, absolute (ambiental) and relative view point, using evidence from Romance, Germanic, and African languages, with references to other language families. Mapping Spatial PPs demonstrates that the internal structure of prepositional phrases is richer than previously recognized.
Synopsis
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.
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.
Table 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"
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