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Prototype effects in discourse and the synonymy issue: Two Lakota postpositions [PDF]
, 2003 Despite of being fully synonymous at the semantic level, the postpositions el "locative/directional" and ekta "locative/directional" in Lakota (Siouan, Central North America) display different semantic cores in discourse: the semantic prototype for el is
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Presentational/Existential Structures in Spoken versus Written German: Es Gibt and SEIN [PDF]
, 2013 This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/ existential es gibt NP and a range of SEIN NP structures such as da SEIN , locative SEIN , es SEIN , and zero ...
Weinert, Regina
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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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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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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]
, 2015 Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
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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 +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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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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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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