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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 Discourse function has often been noticed to be a strong factor in conditioning Bantu word order. The importance of discourse function for determining the word order of Bantu languages is visible for example in locative inversion and dedicated focus ...
Elisabeth J. Kerr +5 more
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The syntax of manner quotative constructions in English and Dutch [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes an account of some properties of the manner quotative constructions be like [Quote] in English and hebben (zo)iets van [Quote] in Dutch. We make two main claims about these constructions.
Haddican, William, Zweig, Eytan
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]
, 2015 Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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