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The Locative Existential Construction in Chinese
2023The locative inversion constructions are characterized by a noncanonical word order where a locative phrase is inverted preceding the verb and the thematic subject follows the verb. This phenomenon is found quite common crosslinguistically, though whether “inversion” is the right label for the constructions or not remains controversial.
Yang Gu, Jie Guo
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The Sesotho locative constructions
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1995Les locatifs en sesotho (langue bantoue) montrent des proprietes nominales particulieres, telles que devenir un sujet ou un objet dans une phrase. Un sujet locatif possede tous les traits caracteristiques des sujets, ce qui n'est pas le cas d'un objet locatif. L'A. propose que les sujets locatifs et les objets locatifs sont tous sujets dans le Principe
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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 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, Possessive, and Locative Constructions in Formosan Languages
Oceanic Linguistics, 1999The present paper deals with existential, possessive, and locative constructions in IO Formosan languages: Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Seediq, and Tsou. Our aim is twofold: to provide an overview of these constructions in each language, while also trying to determine whether the syntactic and semantic ...
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Tswana locatives and their status in the inversion construction
Africana Linguistica, 2011Several articles published in the last decade have demonstrated that, in several Sotho-Tswana (S30) and Nguni (S40) languages, locative marking has ceased to be integrated into the noun class system, and preverbal locatives in inversion constructions do not show evidence of being grammatical subjects.
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2007
Differential case marking, Incremental specification in context (SFB 732)
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Differential case marking, Incremental specification in context (SFB 732)
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The locative alternation: unaccusative constructions and subject position
2012The study of transitivity alternations plays a central role in linguistic research, because it can provide us with valuable information about the interface between the lexicon and the syntax. The main focus of this dissertation is to find the intrinsic features that characterize the locative alternation, i.e.
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The Ibibio Locative Copular Constructions
2014The Ibibio language, a member of the Lower Cross group of languages is predominantly spoken in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Ibibio has two types of copular construction. One is locative while the other is predicative. Using a purely descriptive approach/method, this paper provides a descriptive account of the copular locative constructions in Ibibio. This
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