The evolution of complex spatial expressions within the romance family : : a corpus-based study of French and Italian / / by Thomas Hoelbeek.

In The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family , Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun travers or the Italian noun traverso ,...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume 7
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (263 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
Notes:"This book is a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, which I defended at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on April 28, 2014."
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • On French and Italian Complex Spatial Expressions
  • Data Collection and Research Methodology
  • Interpretative Framework
  • Results of the French Analysis
  • Results of the Italian Analysis
  • Contrastive Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Cited Text Index
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.