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Volume 14:3 March 2014
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Adpositions: Function Marking in Human Languages. Claude Hagège. UK: Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN-978-0-19-957500-8. Pp. 372.

Reviewed by Arvind Jadhav, M.A. UGC-NET English, M.A. Linguistics, Ph.D. Scholar, Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science, Karad 415124, Maharashtra, India.

Various Positions

Some languages have prepositions (e.g. English language) while others have postpositions (e.g. Marathi language) and some languages have both. In few languages, there are circumpositions, too (e.g. Dutch language). English has prepositions and obviously they precede nominal i.e. Nouns or Noun-like element and Marathi has postpositions that follow nominal stems. And Dutch circumpositions remains at both sides of the complement. All these three languages belong to Indo-European language family.

Adposition/s

Adposition/s grammatical category has been much neglected in linguistic research as compared to other syntactic phenomena. Hagège rightly cites Meira in this regard as:

Adpositions […] are a neglected class in typological studies: most typologies of part-of-speech systems do not even mention them, or then only casually, as, “case markers”, or as “syntactic adverbializers”. There have been studies on the semantics of specific adpositions (“in”, “on”, “over”, etc.), but no considerations on the adpositional class as a whole. After all, why are there adpositions? Why do some languages have a special group of adpositions, while others do not? These questions have, the best of my knowledge, never been addressed in the literature (Meira 2004: 233).

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Arvind Jadhav, M.A. UGC-NET English, M.A. Linguistics, Ph.D. Scholar
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Yashwantrao Chavan College of Science
Karad 415124
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