This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic

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While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus

This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what

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