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Danish rundt ‘around’ as a postposition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2024

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Michael Nguyen*
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Abstract

In this squib, I provide arguments in favour of the view that Danish rundt is a postposition. The functional, semantic, and syntactic properties of adpositions are discussed, and I show that competing analyses of rundt are falsifiable while the postposition analysis itself is not falsified.

Résumé

Résumé

Dans cette notule, je fournis des arguments en faveur de l'idée que le mot danois rundt est une postposition. Les propriétés fonctionnelles, sémantiques et syntaxiques des adpositions sont discutées et je montre que les analyses concurrentes de rundt sont falsifiables alors que l'analyse de la postposition elle-même n'est pas falsifiée.

Keywords

adpositionspostpositionsword classesDanishles adpositionsles postpositionsles classes de motsle danois
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Short/En bref
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , First View , pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2024

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Footnotes

I am indebted to Henrik Jørgensen and Heidi McGhee, who gave useful feedback on a previous version of this squib, and to Alexandra Kratschmer for discussing many of the ideas presented here with me. Thanks also to the two anonymous reviewers and to CJL co-editor Michael Dow for helpful comments. Any remaining mistakes and shortcomings are my own.

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