A Radial Category Profiling Analysis of North Sámi Ambipositions

We present a study of four North Sámi adpositions that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions and thus be termed “ambipositions”. We advance three hypotheses concerning 1) dialectal differences in use of ambipositions in North Sámi, 2) differences between their use as prepositions and...

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Main Authors: Janda, Laura Alexis, Antonsen, Lene, Baal, Berit Anne Bals
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::General linguistics and phonetics: 011
VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011
VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Sami language: 031
VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Samisk språk: 031
North Sámi
sami
Sámi
samisk
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6673
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Summary:We present a study of four North Sámi adpositions that can be used as both prepositions and postpositions and thus be termed “ambipositions”. We advance three hypotheses concerning 1) dialectal differences in use of ambipositions in North Sámi, 2) differences between their use as prepositions and postpositions, and 3) a possible typological correlation between the frequency of ambipositions and the extent to which position is used to differentiate meaning, with North Sámi at the high end of this scale. Our study tests these hypotheses against two databases representing the use of ambipositions in newspapers and in literature.

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