Marked adpositions

  • Authors:
  • S. A. M. Lestrade

  • Affiliations:
  • Radboud University Nijmegen

  • Venue:
  • Prepositions '06 Proceedings of the Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses the partitive-genitive case alternation of Finnish adpositions. This case alternation is explained in terms of bidirectional alignment of markedness in form and meaning. Marked PP meanings are assigned partitive case, unmarked ones genitive case.