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Etruscan language --- Locative constructions.

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Bantu languages --- Langues bantoues --- Locative constructions --- Locatifs

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A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases. Experiencers--grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state--are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) locations. Drawing on results from a range of languages and theoretical frameworks, Landau examines the far-reaching repercussions of this simple claim. Landau shows that all experiencer objects are grammaticalized as locative phrases, introduced by a dative/locative preposition. "Bare" experiencer objects are in fact oblique, too, the preposition being null. This preposition accounts for the oblique psychological properties, attested in case alternations, cliticization, resumption, restrictions on passive formation, and so on. As locatives, object experiencers may undergo locative inversion, giving rise to the common phenomenon of quirky experiencers. When covert, this inversion endows object experiencers with wide scope, attested in control, binding, and wh-quantifier interactions. Landau's synthesis thus provides a novel solution to some of the oldest puzzles in the generative study of psychological verbs. The Locative Syntax of Experiencers offers the most comprehensive description of the syntax of psychological verbs to date, documenting their special properties in more than twenty languages. Its basic theoretical claim is readily translatable into alternative frameworks. Existing accounts of psychological verbs either consider very few languages or fail to incorporate other theoretical frameworks; this study takes a broader perspective, informed by findings of four decades of research.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics --- Locative constructions. --- Psychological aspects. --- Locative constructions (Grammar) --- Case --- Syntax --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Locative constructions --- Psychological aspects --- Linguistics --- Philology

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This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation. The author looks at the constructions as part of alternation, but also looks beyond the alternations, and analyzes and describes the constructions in their own right. They are analyzed as three-participant constructions with relational complements, construing causation of the three main subtypes of relations, namely intensive, circumstantial and possessive relations. Particular attention is paid to the concept of holicity, to the status of the prepositional phrase, and to collocational properties, which play a key role in the decision as to which alternate should be regarded as the unmarked one within its construction paradigm. The approach taken is inspired by systemic functional grammar and can broadly be characterized as cognitive-functional.

English language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax --- Locative constructions --- Prepositions --- Locative constructions. --- Prepositions. --- Syntax. --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- 802.0-56 --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Locative constructions (Grammar) --- Case --- Prepositional phrases --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Philology --- English language - Syntax --- English language - Locative constructions --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Locative constructions --- English language - Prepositions

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This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume's theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concer

Motion in language. --- Direction in language. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Locative constructions (Grammar) --- Linguistics --- Locative constructions. --- Case --- Syntax --- Direction in language --- Motion in language --- Locative constructions --- Grammar --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Philology