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The construction of locative situations: locative media and the Situationist International, recuperation or redux? [PDF]
Digital Creativity, 2010 A trend exists within locative media art of invoking the practices of the Situationist International (SI) as an art historical and theoretical background to contemporary practices. It is claimed that locative media seeks to re-enchant urban space though the application of locative technologies to develop novel and experimental methods for navigating ...
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Spatial Expressions In Sinhala: Appearance of Verb Forms
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992 Most of the studies done on locative constructions in many languages show the relationship between the figure and the ground in terms of geometrical and/or topological terms.
Tilakaratne, Sunanda
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Linguistics, 2022 This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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Locative Constructions in Dangme
Issues in Language Studies, 2020 This paper explores locative constructions in Dangme, a language that belongs to the Kwa family of languages. The paper discusses the components of the basic locative construction in Dangme. It also examines the syntax and semantics of verbs of position and verbs of change of location that function in the basic locative constructions in Dangme.
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Locative and existential predication: On forms, functions and neighboring domains
Locative and existential predications are fundamental linguistic constructions that exhibit significant formal overlap while serving distinct communicative functions.
Karakoç, Birsel +15 more
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 This paper is part of Peter Svenonius’ Adposition Seminar at the University of Tromsø which was taught in 2005-2006. The main focus was the distinction between locative path and locative place constructions. The aim of this paper is descriptive in nature
Marleen van de Vate
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The locative system in Cuwabo and Makhuwa (P30 Bantu languages)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2016 This article presents the locative morphosyntax of Cuwabo and Makhuwa (Bantu, North Mozambique), in a comparative perspective with a sample of other Bantu languages.
Rozenn Guérois
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Predicative Possessive Constructions in Hindi
Bhasha, 2022 Hindi has more than one construction for the encoding of possessive relationships: in particular, this language lacks a nominative‑accusative construction and a ‘have’‑verb, and instead encodes possession through intransitive sentences with the ...
Carnesale, Lucrezia
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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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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING OF KOREAN LOCATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS BY CHINESE SPEAKERS
, 2018 This study investigated offline and online comprehension of Korean locative alternation by Chinese-speaking second language (L2) learners of Korean. An acceptability judgment task and an online self-paced reading task were conducted with Chinese learners
박선희
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