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Terms denoting space and/or time have grammatical significance across languages because many of them grammaticalize into adpositions as well as other tense, aspect, and modality markers. Drawing on the data from primary postpositions, secondary postpositions, and corresponding Sino- Korean postpositions, this paper explores the roles of source lexemes, source construction, semantic components, formal transparency, and specialization with reference to grammaticalization. It argues that there exists a close relationship among these components, and each of which either constrain or promote the grammaticalization processes. It also suggests that from the evidence of specialization phenomena displayed by the native and Sino-Korean postpositional systems, the notion of push-chain in terms of conceptual abstraction is not viable.
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postposition, grammaticalization, spatial terms, temporal terms
