Existential constructions play an important role in the development of Generative Grammar. Their special natures urge linguists to pay painstaking effort to give them a unified account. At first we have a brief review of the relevant study of these constructions and examine their strong points and weakness. On the basis of their study, we assume that in existential constructions of SVO language...

This paper deals with contextual aspects of locative preposition processing. Firstly, accordingly to a study on the referential behavior of the pronominal adverb ”y” in its locative uses, we show that static locative prepositions are functions, not only at the conceptual level (as shown in previous studies), but also from a contextual point of view. Such functions introduce new objects in the d...

Machine translation of locative prepositions is not straightforward, even between closely related languages. This paper discusses a system of translation of locative prepositions between English and French. The system is based on the premises that English and French do not always conceptualize objects in the same way, and that this accounts for the major differences in the ways that locative pr...

We study logic in the light of the Kantian distinction between analytic (untyped, meaningless, locative) answers and synthetic (typed, meaningful, spiritual) questions. Which is specially relevant to proof-theory: in a proof-net, the upper part is locative, whereas the lower part is spititual: a posteriori (explicit) as far as correctness is concerned, a priori (implicit) for questions dealing ...

This paper explores the system of body part terms used in locative descriptions in Juchitán Zapotec or Juchiteco. In particular, it examines their semantic properties as heads of Ground phrases to determine whether they encode spatial and locative relations or whether they remain as object-part denoting nominals. The analysis shows that structural and functional analogy allows body part terms t...

The paper presents a solution to the technical problem posed by Girard after the introduction of Ludics of how to define proof nets with quantifiers that commute with multiplicatives. According to the principles of Ludics, the commuting quantifiers have a “locative” nature, in particular, quantified formulas are not defined modulo variable renaming. The solution is given by defining a new corre...

“Locative media may be understood to mean media in which context is crucial, in that the media pertains to specific location and time, the point of spatio-temporal 'capture', dissemination or some point in between. The term "locative media" initially appeared [...in 2003...] as a tentative category for new media art that sought to explore the intersection of the virtual space of the Internet wi...

In Northern Sotho one of the strategies to express locality makes use of locative particle groups, being complements preceded by any of the so-called locative particles ka, kua, mo, ga, or go. Current linguistic descriptions shy away from those cases where sequences of such particles are employed. In this article these sequences are termed ‘‘locative n-grams’’ and are studied for the first time...