Inverse-locational predication in typological perspective

• Autores: Denis Creissels
• Localización: Italian journal of linguistics, ISSN 1120-2726, Vol. 31, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 37-106
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The central topic of the present paper is the typology of inverse-locational predication, illustrated by English There is a cat in the tree. After defining inverse-locational predication as a comparative concept and discussing its relationship with other types of constructions commonly called ‘existential’, I propose a mor-phosyntactic typology of inverse-locational predication constructions, and I dis-cuss the alignment relationships that can be found in the languages of the world between plain-locational, inverse-locational, and possessive predication.