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Les constructions locatives du verbe laisser : comparaison avec les constructions non-locatives

open access: yesLes constructions locatives du verbe laisser : comparaison avec les constructions non-locatives
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Some Remarks on There- and Locative Inversion Constructions

open access: yesSome Remarks on There- and Locative Inversion Constructions
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Motivating non-canonicality in Construction Grammar: The case of locative inversion

open access: yesCognitive Linguistics, 2011
This article discusses the English construction variously known as Locative Inversion or Stylistic Inversion. It shows that the construction displays a unique ensemble of grammatical and usage properties that can be stated but not motivated through ...
Gert Webelhuth
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Verbal prefixation, construction grammar, and semantic compatibility: Evidence from the locative alternation in Polish

open access: yesFolia Linguistica, 2016
This paper aims to analyze the interaction between prefixes, verbs,and abstract argument structure constructions, using as a testing ground thelocative alternation.
Wojciech Lewandowski
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English locative constructions

Functions of Language, 2003
In this article, we set out to describe the general ‘lexicogrammar’ of English locative constructions within a broadly neo-Firthian theoretical frame. First, we look at the question of how the verb and its participants — nominal and prepositional — are structurally integrated with each other.
An Laffut, Kristin Davidse
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The Locative Existential Construction in Chinese

2023
The 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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Estonian exterior locative constructions

2021
Analyses and plots to accompany the article "The complexity principle and the morphosyntactic alternation between case affixes and postpositions in Estonian".
Klavan, Jane, Schützler, Ole
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Existential and Locative Constructions in the Romance Languages

2020
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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The Sesotho locative constructions

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1995
Les 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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Tswana locatives and their status in the inversion construction

Africana Linguistica, 2011
Several 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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