Grammaticalization of prepositions into prefixes

The central aim of my presentation is to study the relationship between prepositions and their prefixal counterparts in French and Dutch. In line with the studies by Amiot (2004, 2005) and by Blom (2005) among others, I claim that prepositions can undergo a grammaticalization process and this way develop into prefixes. This "prefixization" process can be described on the basis of several parameters. Contrary to prepositions, which prototypically interact with two syntactic arguments, assuming the semantic roles of trajector and landmark (e.g. Le livre est sur la table 'the book is on the table... Mehr ...