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Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects
Abstract
Adpositional objects in Turkic languages can bear a variety of different cases, and the same adposition can often assign more than one case. For example, Turkish postpositions take objects in the nominative (or absolute), genitive, dative, or ablative case, and some assign either nominative or genitive, depending on certain properties of the object. This paper presents the main facts about the complex case-marking behavior of Turkic postpositions and places them in a cross-linguistic context. We shall see that, on the one hand, Turkic languages resemble many other languages in some relevant respects, while on the other hand, they are unusual in some ways, for example in having nominative postpositional objects.
Abstract
Adpositional objects in Turkic languages can bear a variety of different cases, and the same adposition can often assign more than one case. For example, Turkish postpositions take objects in the nominative (or absolute), genitive, dative, or ablative case, and some assign either nominative or genitive, depending on certain properties of the object. This paper presents the main facts about the complex case-marking behavior of Turkic postpositions and places them in a cross-linguistic context. We shall see that, on the one hand, Turkic languages resemble many other languages in some relevant respects, while on the other hand, they are unusual in some ways, for example in having nominative postpositional objects.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- The contributors 13
- French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute use 17
- "Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place prepositional phrases in tandem? 37
- Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations 67
- A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi- locatives 85
- Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup 115
- Particles and postpositions in Korean 133
- French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements: A pragma-semantic analysis 171
- Prepositional wars: When ideology defines preposition 191
- "Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languages 209
- Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects 229
- The logic of addition: Changes in the meaning of the Hebrew preposition im ("with"). 257
- A monosemic view of polysemic prepositions 273
- The development of Classical Armenian prepositions and its implications for universals of language change 289
- Author index 301
- Languages index 303
- Subject index 305
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- The contributors 13
- French compound prepositions, prepositional locutions and prepositional phrases in the scope of the absolute use 17
- "Over the hills and far away" or "far away over the hills": English place adverb phrases and place prepositional phrases in tandem? 37
- Structures with omitted prepositions: Semantic and pragmatic motivations 67
- A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi- locatives 85
- Pragmatics of prepositions: A study of the French connectives pour le coup and du coup 115
- Particles and postpositions in Korean 133
- French prepositions à and de in infinitival complements: A pragma-semantic analysis 171
- Prepositional wars: When ideology defines preposition 191
- "Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languages 209
- Case marking of Turkic adpositional objects 229
- The logic of addition: Changes in the meaning of the Hebrew preposition im ("with"). 257
- A monosemic view of polysemic prepositions 273
- The development of Classical Armenian prepositions and its implications for universals of language change 289
- Author index 301
- Languages index 303
- Subject index 305
