TY  - BOOK
AU  - Djenar,Dwi Noverini
ED  - Australian National University.
TI  - Semantic, pragmatic and discourse perspectives of preposition use: a study of Indonesian locatives 
T2  - Pacific linguistics
SN  - 0858835665
U1  - 499.22157 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Canberra, A.C.T.
PB  - Pacific Linguistics
KW  - Indonesian language
KW  - Prepositions
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - English
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231)
N2  - "This book is an in-depth study of three locative prepositions which are often interchangeable in Indonesian, namely, di, pada and dalamroughly corresponding to the English on, in, at.  Discussing a range of quite subtle meanings and uses of these prepositions in different types of discourse (or genre), it provides a complete descriptive account of prepositional meanings that reflects more closely the range of actual uses by speakers in spoken and written discourses.  It addresses important semantic and pragmatic issues including polysemy, sense distinction, conceptual and non-conceptual aspects of preposition use, borrowing and semantic change, context and inferences.  The issue of preposition alternation, which has received little attention in previous studies, is discussed in terms of the interplay between overlaps in the semantic range and pragmatic as well as discourse-related factors." -- Back cover
ER  -