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Sign order in Slovenian Sign Language locative constructions
Linguistica, 2016 In both sign and spoken languages, locative relations tend to be encoded within constructions that display the non-basic word/sign order. In addition, in such an environment, sign languages habitually use a distinct predicate type – a classifier ...
Matic Pavlič
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Container Constructions in Yudja: locatives, individuation and measure
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2016 The possible interpretations of container phrases (such as ‘cups of sugar’) has been long debated in the formal semantics literature because container phrases can be associated with a variety of possible readings that go from individuation to measure. In
Suzi Lima
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Persian Double Object Constructions and Ditransitive Constructions within Distributed Morphology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 The aim of this paper is to study dative and locative alternations in Persian based on Wood & Marantz (2017) within Distributed Morphology. We attempt to investigate the extent to which argument structure alternation can be reduced to the syntactic and ...
Vida Sadrolmamaleki, Mazdak Anushe
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Atlantis, 2021 This article offers a corpus-based analysis of locative inversion in journalistic writing. The study focuses on the analysis of the construction in press reportage dealing with cultural, sports, financial, political and spot news in Present-Day English ...
Carlos Prado-Alonso
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Typology of Copula Constructions in Gorani Texts and the Ergative System's Reflection in Them [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 In this study, the copula constructions in Gorani texts are investigated, as well as how the ergative system is reflected in them. The Divan of Mawlavi (also known as Kurdish Mawlavi) is one of the most authoritative Gorani manuscripts used in this study.
Saeed Karami +2 more
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The grammaticalization path DEICTIC SPATIAL ADVERB > ADPOSITION
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023 In addition to the grammaticalization of nouns and verbs into adpositions, which has been widely discussed in the grammaticalization literature, this paper identifies and describes a much less well known grammaticalization path, by which deictic spatial
Denis Creissels
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Discours, 2022 The role of entities used as spatial point of reference in narration has been scarcely discussed in the referential introduction literature. This study focuses on the anchoring of new protagonists in the spatial setting of narrative discourse.
Arnaud Arslangul
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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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The origin of the ie endingless locative
Linguistica, 1979 In this paper is presented a new hypothesis regarding the development of the so-called "endingless locative" construction of Indo-European. It is argued that locative formations in -ē, and * ī came to appear in the , o-stem nouns through the ...
Kenneth Shields
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Signo y Seña, 2017 This paper deals with the use of two spatial adverbial constructions in Spanish: locative adverb + possessive pronoun (as in “delante suyo”), that alternates with the normative form locative adverb + [preposition de + personal pronoun] (as in “delante de
Matti Marttinen Larsson +1 more
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