The secret nominal life of Afrikaans intransitive adpositions
Languages like Afrikaans are sometimes said to feature a class of adpositions that can be described as “intransitive” (e.g. binne “inside”, bo “upstairs”, agter “in the back”, buite “outside”, onder “downstairs” voor “in the front”). It is argued that such elements in fact instantiate a “hybrid” cat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2017-12-01
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Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/277 |