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Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa

Anthropological Linguistics, 2009
This 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, 2001
A 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, 1999
The 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 ...
Elizabeth Zeitoun, Lillian M. Huang, Marie M. Yeh, Anna H. Chang   +3 more
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Locative constructions

2007
Differential case marking, Incremental specification in context (SFB 732)
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The locative alternation: unaccusative constructions and subject position

2012
The 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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A closer look at the Hebrew Construct and free locative PPs: The analysis of mi-locatives

2008
Most 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. mixuc “outside”) often, but not always, is introduced by the light P le. Taking direct complementation to be an instance of a prepositional Construct State, with the occurrence
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The Ibibio Locative Copular Constructions

2014
The 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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Coptic Locative Constructions

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1973
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The acquisition of the locative subject construction in Mandarin: An aspectual account

Lingua, 2020
Xiangjun Deng
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Locative phrase and descriptive discourse in L2 Chinese

Chinese As A Second Language Research, 2021
Marzena Watorek
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