Complex prepositions in (Medieval) Portuguese: The question of language contact
Résumé
One important question in the current line of research concerning adpositions is how complex prepositions emerged in the diachrony of Portuguese. This is the question we address, focusing on the first centuries of available texts, and aiming to determine whether CPs have emerged independently from other European languages. Starting with definitions and lists of CPs in Modern Portuguese, and with a usage-based approach, we document the presence of several CPs as early as the 13 th century. These findings do not exclude the importance of language contact, but are also compatible with an independent emergence of CPs in different European languages.
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