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

• Main Author: Ajer, Hanna Danbolt
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2023
• Subjects: Adpositions; Ambipositions; Contrastive focus; Contrastiveness; Definiteness; Endangered languages; Fieldwork; Linguistics; Lule Sami; Minimalist syntax; Postpositions; Predefined alternative sets; Prepositions; Syntax; Universal Spine Hypothesis; Word-order variation; Norway; Tysfjord; Northern Norway; sami
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/348152; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.95571

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...