Herce, Borja. 2023. Adpositions. In Eva van Lier (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Word Classes.
Herce, Borja. 2023. Adpositions. In Eva van Lier (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Word Classes.
Summary: The paper contains an overview of adpositions as a word class. They are a small closed class of highly idiosyncratic expressions compared to other classes. Its members tend to have high token frequency (which explain their internal grammatical heterogeneity) and diachronically they constitute a bridge between grammar and lexicon.