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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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Existential and Locative Constructions in the Romance Languages
2020Abstract Existential 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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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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Verbs in locative constructions and the generative lexicon
The Linguistic Review, 2001A necessary condition for verbs in the locative inversion construction is proposed which is to be defined with reference to the event and qualia structures of verbs in the Generative Lexicon. The condition requires that the lexical representations for verbs include a headed subeventual structure designating a result state, the quale for which means ...
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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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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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Pre-Activation in a Locative Verb Construction
What comprehenders pre-activate during real-time sentence processing remains debated in the psycholinguistic literature. We contribute further evidence towards this question by using a locative verb construction (e.g., "John put the food right on the table"), in which a locative verb such as "put" requires a figure NP and a ground PP, and the adverb ...Devin Johnson, Masaya Yoshida
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A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi-locatives
2008Most Hebrew locative P(reposition)s are directly followed by their complement. However, the complement of Hebrew locatives prefixed by mi , referred to here as mi‑ locatives (e.g.
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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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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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