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Locative Imperatives in Javanese [PDF]

Journal of Language and Literature, 2023
Javanese is a member of the Western Austronesian language, a sub-family of the Austronesian language family. Languages in this sub-family are known in linguistic literature as having an exceptional feature in their voice system among the world’s ...
Suhandano Suhandano
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Locative Arts [PDF]

Leonardo, 2006
The author discusses the field of locative arts, focusing on works and interests from 2003 to 2004. An overview is presented of the artistic project types found within this field, and the author considers in depth a number of issues such as how projects are shaped by their reliance on positioning technologies and the importance of the social within ...
Hemment, Drew
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Locative Shift

Glossa, 2018
In sign language, one may sometimes re-use a locus that originally referred to a spatial location in order to denote an individual found at that location (“Locative Shift”). We suggest that Locative Shift arises when a covert individual-denoting variable
Philippe Schlenker
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Locative Inversion In Cantonese

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
This paper proposes that locative inversion is a widespread syntactic process in Cantonese. The sentence-initial locative phrases in the Locative Inversion sentences are argued to be subjects which come from the postverbal complement position in the ...
Mok, Sui-Sang
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EXISTENTIALS, LOCATIVES AND INVERSE LOCATIVES IN ŠTIVORIAN

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The present study investigates syntactic and interpretive properties of existential, locative and inverse locative constructions in Štivorian, a northern ItaloRomance variety spoken in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alberto Frason
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Projective and other locative PPs in Greek

Glossa, 2022
The distinction between projective and non-projective locative prepositions that has been proposed in the semantic literature (Zwarts & Winter 2000) is reflected in the syntax and morphology of Greek spatial expressions.
Athanasios Michail Ramadanidis
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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels

Studies in African Linguistics, 2014
Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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Competitive use of the locative constructions in the Eastern Aukštaitian subdialect of Vilniusand Southern Aukštaitian subdialect: causes and tendencies

Lietuvių Kalba, 2022
This article is a continuation of previous studies of the interaction between the locative inessive and illative constructions in the Eastern Aukštaitian subdialect of Vilnius and Southern Aukštaitian subdialect.
Daiva Kardelytė-Grinevičienė
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Semantics of Functional and Locative Relations in Rongga

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009
Many scholars have proposed a universal set of locative relations. Herskovits’s comprehensive study of English locative relations found that locative concepts such as inclusion, support and contiguity, and coincidence are basic in English.
Aryawibawa, I. Nyoman
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A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia

Linguistics, 2022
This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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