On the categorization of locational expressions: a funtional account

This paper consists of a critical review of how spatial prepositions and adverbial particles have been treated in the literature. After examining traditional grammars' description of locational expressions until the present moment, some of the main and most recent ideas related to spatial analysis of prepositions and adverbs are put forward. These two opposed positions in relation to the way of categorizing them are presented and discussed. As a result of the data gathered, and starting from a functional paradigm, a new classification of such items is proposed. Therefore, clear boundaries are established to account for the distinction between prepositions and adverbs.

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