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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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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.
Bentley, Delia; id_orcid, Delia Bentley
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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
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Word order in Latin locative constructions: a corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2011
Skopeteas S. Word order in Latin locative constructions: A corpus study in Caesar’s De bello gallico. Language Typology and Universals.
Stavros Skopeteas
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Chapter 32 Locative constructions

2021
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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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LOCATIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL ARGUMENT CONSTRUCTIONS IN JAPANESE

Theoretical Linguistics, 1988
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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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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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