%0 Journal Article
%T Directional expressions cross-linguistically: Nanosyntax and lexicalization Directional expressions cross-linguistically: Nanosyntax and lexicalization
%A Marina Pantcheva
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2009
%I University of Troms?
%X In this paper, I investigate the syntactic structure underlying expressions of the three main types of Paths: Goal Path, Source Path and Route Path. I suggest that they are structurally different and propose a fine-grained syntactic structure for each of them, which is able to account for their morphological make-up. I explore how this structure is spelled out in various languages and show that a nanosyntactic approach to lexicalization captures the facts in an elegant way. In discussing the spell-out of the structure by prepositions and case affixes, I reach the conclusion that sometimes the verb has to ¡®reach down¡¯ and lexicalize heads which belong to the spatial domain (cf. Svenonius and Son 2008). I provide evidence from languages where I argue that this is the case.
%K path
%K goal
%K source
%K route
%K location
%K directed motion verb
%K local cases
%K lexicalization
%K syncretism
%K nanosyntax
%K superset
%K allative
%K ablative
%K perlative
%K prolative
%K locative
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/214