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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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Temporal/locative inversion in Arabic [PDF]
Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 2017 Abstract This research scrutinizes the observation that when the thematic subject is extracted (i.e. questioned) in Jordanian Arabic, temporal/locative inversion may occur. Temporal inversion occurs irrespective of the verb being transitive or intransitive, whereas locative inversion is limited to contexts with an
Marwan Jarrah
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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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Mandarin Chinese Locative Inversion vs. Kinyarwanda Stative Locative Inversion
International Journal of Culture and History, 2018 This study aims to provide a detailed comparison of locative inversion in Mandarin Chinese with -zhe and (stative) locative inversion in Kinyarwanda. After a brief description of these constructions, the study shows that they are similar in many respects and involve similar restrictions despite the fact that the two languages are genetically unrelated:
Jean Paul Ngoboka
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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 ...
Broekhuis, H.
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ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This paper proposes a detailed description of locative inversion (LI) constructions in Cuwabo, in terms of morphosyntactic properties and thematic restrictions. Of particular interest are the use of disjoint verb forms in LI, and the co-existence of formal and semantic LI, which challenges the widespread belief that the two constructions cannot be ...
Guérois, Rozenn
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Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study [PDF]
, 2012 Holler, S. & J. Hartmann (2012). Locative inversion in English: Implications of a rating study. In S. Featherston & B. Stolterfoht (eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory, 241-265. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Holler, Sara +3 more
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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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The locative system in Cuwabo and Makhuwa (P30 Bantu languages) [PDF]
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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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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