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A hierarchy of locations: evidence from the encoding of direction in adpositions and cases
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August 26, 2010
Abstract
The encoding of direction (place, goal, source, route) in systems of adpositions and local cases is not uniformly distributed over different locations (at, in, under), but can be shown to follow a hierarchical pattern. This pattern is compared with similar hierarchies proposed in the literature about the acquisition and typology of spatial language. Differences in semantic complexity and pragmatic salience between locations might explain why such a hierarchy exists.
Received: 2009-02-03
Revised: 2009-11-13
Published Online: 2010-08-26
Published in Print: 2010-September
© 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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