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Locative Inversion In Cantonese [PDF]

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
This paper proposes that locative inversion is a widespread syntactic process in Cantonese. The sentence-initial locative phrases in the Locative Inversion sentences are argued to be subjects which come from the postverbal complement position in the ...
Mok, Sui-Sang
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Structure of English Locative Inversion

Humanis, 2020
A sentence structure involves the packaging of meaning. Words and their order decide the meaning of a sentence conveyed. This study discussed two points of problems.
I Ketut Widi Adnyana, Yana Qomariana
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Locative Inversion and Stage Topics: A Cross-Linguistic Study [PDF]

Discours, 2016
This paper seeks to identify the conditions which a clause-initial X phrase (XP) must satisfy to license locative inversion. Three SVO (subject-verb-object) languages with distinct degrees of word order flexibility are considered: English, French and ...
Joana Teixeira
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Locative Inversion in Vietnamese

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This 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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Locative Inversion in Old English Embedded Clauses

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A grammatical construction resembling Present-Day English locative inversion has already been found in Old English, with a fronted prepositional phrase prompting V2 word order, both in main and subordinate clauses.
Sergio López-Martínez
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Locative inversion and agreement syntax in Brazilian Portuguese

Matraga, 2009
Adopting the Minimalist Program framework (CHOMSKY 2000, 2001), this paper suggests that, in Brazilian Portuguese, sentences with a locative prepositional phrase in preverbal position can be characterized as instances of locative inversion in which ...
Juanito Ornelas de Avelar
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Speaker’s Involvement in Press Reportage: The Case of Nonlexicalised and Lexicalised Locative Inversion

Atlantis, 2021
This article offers a corpus-based analysis of locative inversion in journalistic writing. The study focuses on the analysis of the construction in press reportage dealing with cultural, sports, financial, political and spot news in Present-Day English ...
Carlos Prado-Alonso
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Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account

Glossa, 2016
This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument.
Alice Corr
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Degrés de subjectivisation dans la représentation linguistique de la perception : le cas de la perception directe dans les récits en anglais

Anglophonia, 2021
An act of perception may be exteriorised through language in different ways. Drawing on examples taken from narrative fiction in English, this article sets out to explore the grammar of the linguistic expression of perception from the standpoint of the ...
Henry Wyld
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Locative inversion in English [PDF]

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2005
This article aims at reformulating in more current terms Hoekstra and Mulder’s (1990) analysis of the Locative Inversion (LI) construction. The new proposal is crucially based on the assumption that Small Clause (SC) predicates agree with their external argument in phi-features, which may be morphologically reflected, as in the case of adjectival ...
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