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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2021 In this paper, I focus on disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese. In the literature, disyllabic post-nominal locatives have traditionally been considered nouns. Recent proposals, however, have offered different analyses.
Pei-Jung Kuo
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Does spatial locative comprehension predict landmark-based navigation? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the present study we investigated the role of spatial locative comprehension in learning and retrieving pathways when landmarks were available and when they were absent in a sample of typically developing 6- to 11-year-old children.
Laura Piccardi +4 more
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2021 This research aims to determine the argument/thematic structure of Sindhi verbs. In English and Sindhi, it examines the Locative, Source, Goal, and Instrumentive Thematic Relations.
Zahid Ali
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The Semantics of Locative Adpositions in Amharic
Aethiopica, 2021 This paper intends to describe the semantics of locative adpositions in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. The analysis is based on elicited data that were collected by using Bowerman and Pederson’s (1992) topological relations picture ...
Gashaw Arutie Asaye
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2012 This is a study of the locational structures of Oromo. A range of syntactic constructions types is considered within a single synchronic grammaticalization schema. Speaker choices of particular structures within discourse are also identified and explored.
Mi’eesa Yaachis +2 more
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Body-part adpositions in Gaahmg--Grammaticalized forms with person-marker vowels
Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 Many African languages employ body parts as adpositions (Heine 1989), the general pattern in Gaahmg, with one locative postposition perhaps derived from ‘vagina’.
Timothy M. Stirtz
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Deverbal nominalization in Runyankore
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 In this paper I examine eleven different processes of deverbal nominalization in Runyankore, a Lacustrine Bantu language spoken in Uganda. After establishing both general and Runyankore-specific properties that distinguish nouns from verbs, I test each ...
Larry Hyman
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Analyse sémantique des constructions locatives statiques en koyaga, langue mandé de Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé :Cette étude analyse non seulement les items verbaux, mais aussi les marqueurs lexicaux de localisation employés par les locuteurs koyaga dans leurs constructions locatives pour exprimer les relations spatiales statiques.
Fréjuss Yafessou KOUAME & Yassine Juliette KAMAGATE
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Étude de la variation linguistique berbère : le cas des déictiques à l’œuvre dans le kabyle extrême oriental [PDF]
Akofena, 2022 L’objet de cette contribution est la variation des modalités locatives dans les parlers kabyles de l’est de Béjaia ville. Nous essayons de décrire la variation dans dix-neuf parlers qui sont d’une homogénéité relative.
Ourida AISSOU
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Linguistica, 2007 § 1.The parameters which began to undergo a profound change in Late Latin include the marking of definiteness and the gradual fixation of a different word order.1 These two phenomena are brought into connection by M.. Durante's observation (1981,
Concepción Cabrillana
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