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Existential and Locative Constructions in the Romance Languages
2020Existential and locative constructions form an interesting cluster of copular structures in Romance. They are clearly related, and yet there are theoretical reasons to keep them apart. In-depth analysis of the Romance languages lends empirical support to their differentiation.
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Existential Constructions across Languages
2023This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships ...
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Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa
Anthropological Linguistics, 2009This article lays out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua). Locative constructions come in two types—those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate ...
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Existential constructions in Bantu languages
Abstract This chapter examines existential predication in a sample of one hundred Bantu languages found across the Bantu-speaking region. Following Creissels (2019a), existential constructions are defined in relation to plain locational clauses.Rasmus Bernander +2 more
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An Inquiry into Existential Constructions. [PDF]
J. Chin. Lang. Comput., 2007 Guangjun Yang, Qilin Tian
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Conspicuous negation. The grammaticali-zation of the locative-existential have
Zeitschrift Fur Slawistik, 2017Konrad Szczesniak
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