Open AccessDo the prepositions represent an autonomous lexical class?
Author(s) -
Zuzanna Topolińska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
juznoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi2002009t
Subject(s) - linguistics , noun , class (philosophy) , part of speech , space (punctuation) , action (physics) , function (biology) , natural language processing , lexical item , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology
The author supports the thesis that prepositions are an integral part of noun phrases and as such function primarily as grammaticalised exponents of the semantic category of ?space?, and - secondarily - of the semantic categories of ?source? and ?goal? of an action.
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