Postpositions in Eastern Khanty
The paper aims to investigate the domain of spatial relators in Eastern Khanty and the notions they serve to express. The domain of basic topological relations is represented by a class of postpositions which are more or less equivalent to prepositions in English. In the present paper we would like to approach the analysis of postpositions in Eastern Khanty within the modern grammaticization theory framework. Thus, the analysis is performed from a perspective of the evolution of postpositions out of earlier lexical forms. This involves etymology and explanation of changes in language through semantic and cognitive accounts of words.
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Issue: 4, 2007
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Indigenous Languages of Siberia
Pages: 63 — 70
Downloads: 1035