This article offers a corpus-based analysis of locative inversion in journalistic writing. The study focuses on the construction press reportage dealing with cultural, sports, financial, political and spot news Present-Day English. On basis data retrieved from six different corpora, it is argued that distribution these texts related to degree writer’s involvement each text style. Results show m...

Providing users with carefully authored Locative media experiences (which can be consumed via a GPS equipped smartphones or tablets) has significant potential for fostering a strong engagement with their current surroundings. However, the availability of mobile tools to support the authoring of locative media experiences in-situ, and by non-technical users, remains scarce. In this article we pr...

Despite of being fully synonymous at the semantic level, the postpositions él ‘locative/directional’ and ektá ‘locative/directional’ in Lakota (Siouan, Central North America) display different semantic cores in discourse: the semantic prototype for él is the role of locative, while the semantic prototype for ektá is the role of directional. Both the functional synonymy between él and ektá and t...

Locative music experiences are often non-linear and as such the final structure of the music heard is guided by the movements of the user. We note an absence of principles regarding how composers should approach the structuring of such locative soundtracks. For instance, how does one compose for a nonlinear soundtrack using linear, pre-composed placed sounds, where fixed musical time is placed ...

Words expressing spatial relationships in Hittite are synchronically adverbs, not case forms of nouns as sometimes alleged. They are attested in three distinct syntactic roles: postpositions, preverbs, and freestanding adverbs. Some of these local adverbs are inherited from Proto-Indo-European, while others reflect petrified case forms of nouns. Postpositions from inherited local adverbs origin...

This paper presents an exploration platform for locative sonification based on audio feature vectors extracted from urban spaces. Our locative sonification research is part of a larger project called Citygram[17]. Citygram focuses on geospatial research that is concerend with automatically collecting, visualizing, analyzing, and mapping nonocular energies from urban environments. The acoustic d...

This article re-examines the distribution of the class 17 locative prefix kuand its variants kwiand koin the locativisation of nouns in Zulu. To this end an electronic corpus of 5 million running Zulu words — the University of Pretoria Zulu Corpus (PZC) — is queried. We indicate how PZC can be used to highlight previously under-emphasised and overlooked aspects of a seemingly well-documented la...

Abstract We describe two patients who manifested opposite patterns of performance on test batteries that evaluated production, comprehension, and semantic analysis of action verbs on the one hand (e.g. smile, wave, run ) and locative prepositions on the other (e.g. in, on, over ). JP failed all of the verb tests but passed all of the preposition tests, suggesting impaired knowledge of the meani...