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Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax. Recent research shows that prepositional phrases have a complex internal structure, and that the grammatical encoding of locative meaning has its own place in universal grammar. The papers collected in the first part of this volume not only test these proposals against new comparative data, but also shed light on the relation between spatial expressions and other semantic relations like possession. The second part of the volume explores the role of prepositions in non-spatial environments as well as in more general phenomena like verbal affixation, ellipsis, and complementation. By drawing on evidence from less studied languages, and by considering prepositional syntax in interaction with clausal syntax as well as within prepositional phrases, Variation in P refines and develops theories introduced by previous generative studies.

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Author:   Jacopo Garzonio (Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Padua) ,  Silvia Rossi (Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics, Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9780190931254

ISBN 10:   0190931256
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   24 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Variation in P: An Introduction Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi Part I: (Micro)variation in PPs: Refining the fine structure of PPs Chapter 1: Locatives in Shonda and Luganda Pavel Caha & Marina Pantcheva Chapter 2: Case Variation in Eastern Polynesian Spatial PPs David Medeiros Chapter 3: AxParts and Case in Complex PPs: Microvariation in Italian dialects Jacopo Garzonio & Silvia Rossi Chapter 4: At the doctor's: prepositional 'where' in Southern Italian dialects Nicola Munaro & Cecilia Poletto Part II: Ps beyond PPs: Variation in P-related phenomena Chapter 5: P and the Emergence of the Infinitival Left Periphery Joachim Sabel Chapter 6: Mutation in Spatial Deixis (Dx): ""PPs"" in Blackfoot and Plains Cree* Tomio Hirose, Rose-Marie Déchaine, and Heather Bliss Chapter 7: Cross-linguistic variations in the layered structure of PP: Evidence from PP internal NP-ellipsis Hisako Takahashi Chapter 8: Comitative P Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Marco Nicolis & Stanca Somesfalean"

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Jacopo Garzonio is Assistant Professor at the University of Padova. Silvia Rossi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

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