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A semantic analysis of the locative word “ngoài” [PDF]

Quy Nhon University Journal of Science
A locative word is a word that denotes direction and location. The word “ngoài” (outside) is one of the Vietnamese locative words, typically occurring in the structure “ngoài X”.
Luu Hon Vu
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Analyse de la composante sémantique lexicale de l’inversion locative en anglais

E-REA, 2013
This article examines the noncanonical structure known as the locative inversion, which can be described as : < Constituent1 C1 (fronted locative expression) + verb V + Constituent2 C2 (postposed subject) >.
Gérard MÉLIS
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Énoncés capacitifs et constructions à sujet locatif : quel alignement syntaxe-sémantique ?

Anglophonia, 2023
The present paper focuses on two constructions – capacitive (e.g. The main dining room seats 65) and setting-subject (e.g. The reign of Charles II saw the end of the great Forest courts) constructions – which are comparable in more than one way.
Christelle Lacassain, Caroline Marty
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In defence of the Discourse Intention feature

Isogloss
This paper investigates sentence-focus VS structures in Spanish and Catalan. It is generally assumed that, in Romance languages, a covert element occupies the canonical preverbal position, preventing the subject from moving there.
Núria Barrios Jurado
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Modern Greek Constructions with Position Verb κάθομαι

Научный диалог, 2023
The article analyzes the functioning of the Modern Greek verb κάθομαι ‘to sit’ in relation to its lexical and syntactic environment. The study is motivated by the under-researched system of position verbs in Modern Greek and their grammaticalization ...
E. S. Onufrieva
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions

Isogloss, 2015
The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Locativos preposicionados em posição de sujeito : uma possivel contribuição da línguas Bantu à sintaxe do português brasileiro [PDF]

Linguística, 2008
We observe the existing contrast between Brazilian and European Portuguese in relation to prepositional locatives in embedded sentences, and we argue that those constituents can occupy the grammatical subject position in transitive sentences in Brazilian
Juanito Avelar, Juanito Avelar, Sonia Cyrino, Sonia Cyrino   +3 more
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Expressions of motion events in German: an integrative constructionist approach for FLT

CogniTextes, 2020
Expressions of motion reflect the conceptualization of events central to human beings. Most studies on motion have focused on one facet of motion (e.g.
Sabine De Knop
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What Are You Tinking About Where? Syntactic Ambiguity between Abstract Arguments and Concrete Adjuncts in Hungarian, Modulated by Concreteness [PDF]

Psychology in Russia: State of Art, 2019
Background. Te critical importance of lexical concreteness and embodied sensorimotor processes for language comprehension is ofen assumed to be beyond doubt.
Bálint Forgács, Csaba Pléh
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Proposed interaction between verb and preposition in the encoding of motion events. A contrastive study between Spanish and Mandarin Chinese

Energeia, 2021
Spanish and Mandarin Chinese have been classified as verb-framed language and satellite-framed language respectively (Talmy: 1991, 2000). However, in Spanish, manner verbs are compatible with hacia and hasta, and a small group of them can do so with ...
María Azucena Penas Ibáñez, Tao Zhang
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