On Adposition Phrases in Dagara *

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

STUDIA LINGUISTICA Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI:10.1111/stul.12193

A. N. Hien

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Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to propose a novel analysis of adposition phrases in Dagara. Indeed, it is observed in the literature that adpositions consist of two types in Dagara: a preposition and postpositions. The preposition, ni ‘with’, is said to express comitative and instrument while the postpositions express locations. However, Dagara is considered to be a head-initial language. Then, assuming the existence of postpositions will pose a problem to any theory of phrase structure based on the head parameter. In the present thesis, I show that what are analyzed as postpositions in Dagara do not have any characteristics of adpositions and should be analyzed as nouns. I provide four pieces of evidence for this claim:

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论达加拉语中的反对短语*

本文的目的是提出一种新的达加拉语对立短语分析方法。的确，在文献中观察到，达加拉语中的介词由两种类型组成:介词和后置。介词ni ' with '表示模仿和工具，而后置表示位置。然而，达加拉语被认为是一种头部开头的语言。然后，假设后置词的存在会给任何基于词头参数的短语结构理论带来问题。在本文中，我证明了Dagara语中作为后置句分析的东西不具有介词的任何特征，而应该作为名词来分析。我为这一说法提供了四个证据:

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