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Locative Inversion in Old English Embedded Clauses

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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Temporal/locative inversion in Arabic [PDF]

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 2017
AbstractThis 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 unaccusative verb. This research argues
Marwan Jarrah
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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.
Sluckin, Benjamin L., Cruschina, Silvio, Martin, Fabienne   +2 more
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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 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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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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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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The Syntax of Thetic Statements in English

Atlantis, 2020
This article offers a formal approach to thetic statements in English that focuses on the structural mechanisms available in this language to express a reading of this sort.
Ana Ojea
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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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