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EXISTENTIALS, LOCATIVES AND INVERSE LOCATIVES IN ŠTIVORIAN

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The present study investigates syntactic and interpretive properties of existential, locative and inverse locative constructions in Štivorian, a northern ItaloRomance variety spoken in north-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alberto Frason
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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, Liana Palermo, Alessia Bocchi, Cecilia Guariglia, Simonetta D'Amico   +4 more
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Disyllabic post-nominal locatives in Mandarin Chinese

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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A Comparative Study of Locative, Source, Goal and Instrumentive Thematic Relations in English and Sindhi

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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Locationals in Oromo

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, Robbin Clamons, Lenief Heimstead   +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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Locative Arts [PDF]

Leonardo, 2006
The author discusses the field of locative arts, focusing on works and interests from 2003 to 2004. An overview is presented of the artistic project types found within this field, and the author considers in depth a number of issues such as how projects are shaped by their reliance on positioning technologies and the importance of the social within ...
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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]

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Résumé :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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