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The postposition 'bok' in the Arara language

Issue Date:
2017
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13 pages
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In languages, the category of adpositions typically comprises a small class of morphemes that serve to locate one entity, the 'trajector', with reference to another entity, the 'landmark' within three-dimensional space. Adpositions tend to be highly polysemous. In this paper I consider the postposition bok in the Arara language. This postposition has a variety of disparate usages. My goal is to show how the meanings illustrated by these usages are related within a network.
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Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 57
Entry Number:
93649