From locative to de directional preposition phrases in Romanian

The paper discusses the (syntactic and semantic) conditions under which Romanian simple spatial prepositions render locative or directional reading of an event. It will be argued that spatial prepositions are always locative, and that the goal of motion interpretation is only available with some sub...

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Main Author: Iulia Zegrean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/from_locative_to_de_directional_preposition_phrases_in_romanian