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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17524424 |
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- <p>This data set includes the supplementary material for the article "A prepositional cycle in French". All content is documented in the README.md file. </p> <p><br><strong>Abstract:</strong> This paper discusses the morphosyntax and semantics of locative prepositions in French, with a particular focus on the prefix <em>de</em> in complex prepositions (e.g., <em>en dessous de </em>[in from.under of] 'below') and in axial nominalizations (e.g., <em>le dessous de</em> [the from.under of] 'the bottom part/region of'). We propose that in these formations, <em>de</em>, which developed historically from an ablative marker, retains a Source semantics and lexicalizes the function PROJECT, which defines the region outward from the axial part of an object (Matushansky & Zwarts, 2019).</p> <p>We support our analysis with a corpus study on French child data showing that children acquiring L1 French tend to overuse <em>de </em>in transitive contexts, overtly expressing conceptual structure that is typically implicit in the standard adult language, but replicating patterns present in Old and Medieval French.</p>