Title: Locative Preposition Yu(于)in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions
Abstract:Locative preposition yu(于) originates from the verb yu(于). The verbs before and after this kind of preposition have [displacement], [existence] and [placement] semantic features. Most of the aforement...Locative preposition yu(于) originates from the verb yu(于). The verbs before and after this kind of preposition have [displacement], [existence] and [placement] semantic features. Most of the aforementioned kind of yu(于) bears the meaning of dao(到). yu(于) +object usually represents the end of displacement, the objects of yu(于) can be location nouns, place nouns, pronouns zhi(之), ghosts and gods nouns, and also verbs. yu(于) +object usually comes after a verb; when preposed, it becomes contrastive focus of a sentence. This kind of yu(于), when combined with zi(自), often constitute fixed structure zi(自)… yu(于)….Sometimes it is combined with cong(从) and constitutes fixed structure cong(从)… yu(于) ….Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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