Space and events: spatial PPs and motion VPs

This text presents a study of the internal syntax and semantics of spatial PPs, as well as their role and contribution in motion events when combined with different motion verbs.

It offers a new perspective on spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators.

They relate entities, positions or events to specific entities or positions in a spatial relationship.

Based on the way these elements are viewed, the minimum P projection proposed is [RelpathP [RelplaceP]].

The scope of the materials examined here allows equivalent elements in Kurdish and Arabic for which no full descriptions are available to be analysed.

Furthermore, this book provides a syntactic-semantic model, which is built on insights from Dowty (1979) and Rothstein's (2004) semantic approaches and Ramchand's (2008) syntactic model.