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Circumposition

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Cir`cum`po`si´tion
n.1.The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
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Such phrases are illustrated as follows: Circumposition Prefix ke-ziya behwala ~ ke-ziya 'after that, then' be-zih yetenessa ~ be-zih 'due to this' be-zih gize ~ be-zih 'then' The meaning of the corresponding circumpositional and prefix phrases is similar.
The enclitic -mm in Amharic: reassessment of a multifunctional ... by Demeke, Girma A.; Meyer, Ronny / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
Finally, consider the circumposition an x vorbei 'past x' in (26a).
Event paths, conflation, argument structure, and VP shells (1) by McIntyre, Andrew / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
144) is a source-oriented principle and has three aspects: its effects are reflected in a form's morphophonological shape (formal erosion) and its meaning (semantic bleaching), as well as its syntactic environment (position in the syntagm: original postposition or circumposition vs.
Claudio Di Meola: Die Grammatikalisierung deutscher Prapositionen by Ross-Hagebaum, Sebastian / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
 
 
 
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