The internal structure of the locative predicate-complement form-class in German is described within the framework of a generative grammar consisting of a phrase-structure (PS) component, a semantic (S) component , and a transformation (T) component. The S-component is in-terposed between the PS-component and the T-component. The PS-component generates the deep internal structure of the locativ...

Jenny Weight RMIT University Locative technologies distribute locationspecific media to a local population. This media is ambient because it’s inscribed on the landscape, encountered as a function of passing through a location. Many technologies can be used to distribute locative media, and many are neither new nor novel: a signpost is a type of locative technology, and the words ‘‘Melbourne 42...

This study asked whether contextual abstractness would affect productive locative case marking in 3to 6year-old Hungarian-speaking children. A narrative elicitation task examined locative case production in both concrete (e.g., IN the garden) and abstract (e.g., IN trouble) contexts. We found that 3-year-olds were less accurate in the abstract condition than controls. By contrast, there was no ...

The topic of the present study is an analytic verbal expression (exemplified in 1, below) that is commonly employed in Basse Mandinka, a regional variety of the Gambian Mandinka language. This construction is formed by the non-verbal locative predicator be ‘be’ (in the negative te), the verb naa ‘come’, the base of a “meaning” verb1 and the infinitive marker la ‘to’. This locution – in accordan...

The ways in which different languages encode motion events has been the topic of intense analysis and dissection in recent years, especially with regard to Talmy’s (1991, 2000) verb/satellite-framed typology. This chapter shifts course by moving away from motion event typologies and the encoding of canonical motion events. Instead, it shows that English speakers can conceptualise space in terms...

I.I Sketch of Proposal We propose a semantics for locative expressions such as near Jones or west of Denver, an important subsystem for NLP applications. Locative expressions denote regions of space, and serve as arguments to predicates, locating objects and events spatially. Since simple locatives occupy argument positions, they do NOT participate in scope ambiguities m pace one common view, w...

We suggest that data from American Sign Language (ASL) provide overt evidence for Partee’s and Stone’s claim that natural language has anaphoric constructions in the temporal and modal domains (Partee 1973, Stone 1997). We provide four arguments. (i) Like nominal and locative expressions, temporal and modal constructions can establish loci which can then be indexed by later pronouns. (ii) As is...