Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami ...

• Main Author: Ajer, Hanna Danbolt
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2022
• Subjects: Adpositions; Ambipositions; Contrastive focus; Contrastiveness; Definiteness; Endangered languages; Fieldwork; Linguistics; FOS Languages and literature; Lule Sami; Minimalist syntax; Postpositions; Predefined alternative sets; Prepositions; Syntax; Universal Spine Hypothesis; Word-order variation; Norway; Tysfjord; Northern Norway; sami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.95571; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/348152

This thesis investigates PP-internal word-order variation in an endangered Uralic language, Lule Sami, which is indigenous to parts of Northern Norway and Sweden. The study focuses on the factors underlying prepositional occurrences in this predominantly postpositional language. It is mainly based o...