On Italian spatial prepositions and measure phrases: reconciling the data with theoretical accounts

The goal of this article is to offer new empirical evidence regarding the grammatical and semantic properties of Italian spatial prepositions, and to provide a theoretical account based on this evidence. We show that Italian has four grammatical types of prepositions (simple, complex, contracted and...

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Main Authors: Ursini Francesco-Alessio, Wu Tong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2024-03-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0042