The paper examines locative expressions and shows that on adequate account of their meaning must be based on two essential understandings: First, the simple spatial relation, often given OS the meaning of the spatial prepositions, is only an “ideal” from which there ore deviations in context: second, a level of “geometric conceptualization” mediates between “the world OS it is” and longuoge. Pr...

The Genitive of Negation (Gen Neg) in Russian involves alternation of Genitive with Nominative or Accusative under conditions which have been debated for many decades. What gives the construction its name is that Gen Neg occurs only under sentential negation; other allegedly crucial factors include topic-focus structure, unaccusativity, perspectival structure, the lexical semantics of the verb,...

In this paper I discuss the grammatical properties of container phrases in Yudja (Tupi; Brazil). I show that container phrases are syntactically indistinguishable from locative phrases. Based on two experimental studies with Yudja children and adults, I address two questions about the interpretation of container phrases. First, given that container constructions are identical to locative constr...

Simple locative sentences show a variety of pseudo-quantificational interpretations. Some locatives give the impression of universal quantification over parts of objects, others involve existential quantification, and yet others cannot be characterized by either of these quantificational terms. This behavior is explained by virtually all semantic theories of locatives. What has not been previou...

Javanese is a member of the Western Austronesian language, sub-family language family. Languages in this are known linguistic literature as having an exceptional feature their voice system among world’s languages and continue to be exciting issues theory syntax. This paper investigates focuses on locative imperative clauses’ system. Data collected from spoken Yogyakarta at ngoko level. study de...