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Locative Inversion in Mandarin Chinese

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1993
Locative inversion is a common linguistic phenomenon that has been studied by linguists of various theoretical backgrounds (see, among others, Bresnan 1990, Demuth 1990, Hoekstra and Mulder 1990, and Rochemont and Culicover 1990). This paper is an attempt to analyse such a phenomenon in Mandarin Chinese within the framework of Government and Binding ...
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Locative Inversion

2000
Abstract In the previous chapters I have crucially utilized the notion equidistance under the theory of Attract proposed by Chomsky (1995a). Under this theory, the local and strictly stepwise economy condition (Collins 1996 and Ura 1995c) guarantees that the application of Attract to α is as economical as the application of Attract to β ...
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The syntax of locative inversion: The preverbal locative NP in lexical functional grammar

Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 2007
Locative inversion construction in Setswana, as in other Bantu languages, defies straightforward analysis in the sense that the preverbal locative NP does not pass the subject hood test, while the post-verbal NP shows features atypical of objects. In the literature in locative inversion constructions, there is a predominant tendency to analyse the ...
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The Interaction of Th/Ex and Locative Inversion

Linguistic Inquiry, 2006
THE INTERACTION OF TH/EX AND LOCATIVE INVERSION Milan Rezac University of the Basque Country and Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes/Naoned In English expletive constructions involving passive participles, the (highest) object surfaces in the pre-participial position (lb), rather than in the post-participial one expected from active constructions ...
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Tswana locatives and their status in the inversion construction

Africana Linguistica, 2011
Several articles published in the last decade have demonstrated that, in several Sotho-Tswana (S30) and Nguni (S40) languages, locative marking has ceased to be integrated into the noun class system, and preverbal locatives in inversion constructions do not show evidence of being grammatical subjects.
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Locative Inversion and the Architecture of Universal Grammar

Language, 1994
L'inversion locative en anglais et en chichewa presente des similitudes, qui s'expliquent par l'existence de memes structures argumentales sous-jacentes, des fonctions syntaxiques et des principes qui les relient. Or l'alignement des roles semantiques avec les categories syntaxiques reflete une difference typologique profonde entre ces deux langues ...
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Fonction discursive de la structure d’ “inversion locative”

Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2006
A locative inversion (LI) sentence is a distinct construction characterized by the presence in clause-initial position of a locative or temporal complement (which is either subcategorized by the verb or operates as an adjunct) followed by the verb itself followed by the subject . The discourse function of such a construction is to establish the spatial
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Locative inversion in English: An empirical approach

2009
Holler, S. (2009). Locative inversion in English: An empirical approach. (Thesis. SBE).
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Locative Inversion in Korean Learners’ L2 English

THE NEW STUDIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE, 2023
Ah Ri Seo, Hyeson Park
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