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Locative Inversion in Vietnamese
LanguagesThis paper has four primary objectives. First, we examine two Vietnamese constructions—the locative and existential constructions—in which a locative phrase appears clause-initially, preceding a verb-DP sequence.
Trần Phan, Chao-Ting Tim Chou
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The origin of the ie endingless locative
Linguistica, 1979 In this paper is presented a new hypothesis regarding the development of the so-called "endingless locative" construction of Indo-European. It is argued that locative formations in -ē, and * ī came to appear in the , o-stem nouns through the ...
Kenneth Shields
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Locative clauses and existential constructions in Khowar
, 2023 The current study investigates how locative clauses and existential constructions are realized and differentiated in the language of Khowar [ISO 693–3: khw] (Hindu Kush Indo-Aryan, HKIA). Khowar is one of several under-researched languages in the Hindu Kush, and as of yet there is no comprehensive description of its linguistic structure.
Appelgren, Hilda
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Locationals: Existential, locative, and possessive constructions
, 1978 This paper is a classic typological study of existential clauses, predlocative clauses, and predpossessive clauses, which are often coded similarly in the world's languages. Clark, Eve V. 1978. Locationals: Existential, locative, and possessive constructions. In Greenberg, Joseph H. (ed.), Universals of human language, Vol. 4: Syntax, 85–126. Stanford:
Clark, Eve V.
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The PAS of Motion Constructions
Liames, 2018 This article discusses the syntactic realization and discourse status of LOCATIVE expressions in motion constructions from the standpoint of the Preferred Argument Structure model (PAS, Du Bois 1987, Du Bois et al 2003).
Valeria Belloro, Lilián Guerrero
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Presentational/Existential Structures in Spoken versus Written German: Es Gibt and SEIN [PDF]
, 2013 This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/ existential es gibt NP and a range of SEIN NP structures such as da SEIN , locative SEIN , es SEIN , and zero ...
Weinert, Regina
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The retreat from locative overgeneralisation errors: a novel verb grammaticality judgment study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Whilst some locative verbs alternate between the ground- and figure-locative constructions (e.g. Lisa sprayed the flowers with water/Lisa sprayed water onto the flowers), others are restricted to one construction or the other (e.g.
Amy Bidgood +3 more
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Aurelia Mallya: Locative-subject alternation constructions in Kiwoso
, 2020 Locative subject alternation constructions show variation within and across languages in terms of subject agreement pattern and the type of predicates involved.
Mallya, Aurelia
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The dative in Croatian Štokavian and Kajkavian grammars up to 1860
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2018 This article deals with the approach to the dative case in Kajkavian and Štokavian grammars from 1604 to 1859. We concentrate on seventeen grammars, primarily focusing on their presentation of the meaning of the dative case.
Marijana Horvat, Ljiljana Šarić
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 We examine the distribution of Emai prepositional phrases and their NP complements relative to intransitive verbs. In canonical order constructions, vbi phrases follow a matrix verb as optional or obligatory constituents, or they follow the verb za in ...
Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare
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