%0 Journal Article
%T The Emergence of Axial Parts
%A Peter Svenonius
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2006
%I University of Troms?
%X Many languages have specialized locative words or morphemes translating roughly into words like ¡®front,¡¯ ¡®back,¡¯ ¡®top,¡¯ ¡®bottom,¡¯ ¡®side,¡¯ and so on. Often, these words are used instead of more specialized adpositions to express spatial meanings corresponding to ¡®behind,¡¯ ¡®above,¡¯ and so on. I argue, on the basis of a cross-linguistic survey of such expressions, that in many cases they motivate a syntactic category which is distinct from both N and P, which I call AxPart for ¡®Axial Part¡¯; I show how the category relates to the words which instantiate it, and how the meaning of the construction is derived from the combination of P[lace] elements, AxParts, and the lexical material which expresses them.
%K Axial Parts
%K preposition
%K Place
%K location
%K locative
%K space
%K adposition
%K postposition
%K K  tharaka
%K Kitharaka
%K Persian
%K Farsi
%K French
%K Korean
%K Japanese
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/85