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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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Locative Inversion in Old English Embedded Clauses [PDF]

Languages
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 in Vietnamese

Languages
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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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

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 Germanic and Romance

, 2021
This chapter investigates locative inversion (LI) in Germanic and Romance, a subject inversion involving a preposed locative expression. LI appears in two primary types: overt LI and covert LI, where a locative reading obtains without a preposed locative.
Benjamin L Sluckin
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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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Locative Inversion In Discourse: a strategy of non-commitment

Discours, 2009
In this paper, Locative Inversion (hence LI) is analysed as the linear realization of a predication devoid of speaker’s commitment. First, we show that the syntactic constraints and modal restrictions already debated in the linguistic literature, form a ...
Christine Copy, Lucie Gournay
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Locative inversion in Bantu and predication

Linguistics, 2013
In generative grammar, locative inversion in Bantu languages is typically analysed in terms of A-movement of the locative from a VP-internal position to the subject position. I present an alternative analysis, according to which the locative subject-DP is introduced above the P/VP, in the specifier of a functional category whose head selects the P/VP
Jochen Zeller
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Locative Inversion

Locative Inversion
application/pdf 論文(Article) Locative Inversion is one of what is called "deep unaccusative diagnostics." However, close scru­tiny of synchronic variations of Locative Inversion constructions makes an unaccusative analysis of it untenable and yields an empirically necessary constraint, which requires that an element which is in­formationally less ...
Michael Diercks
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