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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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Effects of Both Preemption and Entrenchment in the Retreat from Verb Overgeneralization Errors: Four Reanalyses, an Extended Replication, and a Meta-Analytic Synthesis

Collabra: Psychology, 2018
How do speakers avoid producing verb overgeneralization errors such as *'She covered paint onto the wall' or *'She poured the cup with water'? Five previous papers have found seemingly contradictory results concerning the role of 'statistical preemption'
Ben Ambridge, Libby Barak, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Colin Bannard, Giovanni Sala   +4 more
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Algunes reflexions sobre iteracions i trobades - Re: CALL CUTTA(s)

Artnodes, 2009
Aquest text d'observació planteja la qüestió de com s'experimenten directament projectes fets amb mitjans locatius, que són intrínsecament nòmades i efímers, els rastres o arxius de vides posteriors dels quals queden en forma de dades, etiquetes i altres
Tina Bastajian
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The word order in Swahili adnominal constructions with locative demonstratives

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015
This paper analyses the demonstratives of noun classes 16–18, the locative demonstratives, in Swahili. The main focus of the paper is the word order of these demonstratives in adnominal constructions.
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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Argument Alternation in Persian: The Role of “Ra” and Holistic Reading in Locative Alternation [PDF]

مطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2018
The appearance of arguments of a verb in different ways is called Argument Alternation. The aim of this paper is to study locative alternation in Persian.
Ali Safari
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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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The locative system in Cuwabo and Makhuwa (P30 Bantu languages)

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2016
This article presents the locative morphosyntax of Cuwabo and Makhuwa (Bantu, North Mozambique), in a comparative perspective with a sample of other Bantu languages.
Rozenn Guérois
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Locative Inversion in Vietnamese

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This paper has four primary objectives. First, we examine two Vietnamese constructions—the locative and existential constructions—in which a locative phrase appears clause-initially, preceding a verb-DP sequence.
Trần Phan, Chao-Ting Tim Chou
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Locative Case vs. Locative Gender

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1991
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp.
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Syncretism and ordering in the evolution of Catalan pronominal clitic clusters

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2022
  This paper examines the 3rd person clitic combinations found in a digital corpus of Catalan texts dating from the 11th century to the first half of the 18th (the CICA) and attempts to clarify the origin of the current clitic system of colloquial ...
Teresa Cabré
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