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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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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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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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Chapter 32 Locative constructions

2021
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Coptic Locative Constructions

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1973
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19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish

2012
This chapter explores from a typological and construction grammar perspective the use of locative vs directional PPs as alternative ways of expressing spatial endpoints in Polish. I argue, against Nikitina (2008, 2010), that the locative PP motion construction (LPPMC) represents a verb-framed lexicalisation pattern in a satellite-framed language ...
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The acquisition of the locative subject construction in Mandarin: An aspectual account

Lingua, 2020
Xiangjun Deng
exaly  

Locative/existential constructions in Southern Uto-Aztecan languages

Prior typological studies dealing with locative/existential constructions have ignored languages spoken in Mexico outside the Mesoamerican area. The present study fills this gap and examines constructions that code figure-ground relationships in Southern Uto-Aztecan languages.
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New visualities and the digital wayfarer: Reconceptualizing camera phone photography and locative media

Mobile Media and Communication, 2014
Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink
exaly