Locative and Existential Constructions in Ulwa  

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Koontz-Garboden, Andrew

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 51 no. 3-4 (2009), page 244-268.
Fulltext: 40929715.pdf (1.97MB)

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This article lays Manchester out the morphosyntactic and semantic facts of existential and locative constructions in Ulwa (Misumalpan; Nicaragua).Locative constructions come in two types- those that take one of a small set of posture predicates, and locative and those that are completely bare,having only (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate.The posture predicates constitute adistinct special in syntactic category. Amongthe a figure posture predicates 'sit' is being polysemous, having both a locative and more semantically bleached existential existentialmeaning locative meaning. meaning. Bare locative constructions do not have the of the bleached'sit' construction; rather, they a pur locative meaning.

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