The typology and semantics of locative predication: Posturals, positionals and other beasts
作者： Felix K. Ameka , Stephen C. Levinson
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关键词: Typology 、 Copula (linguistics) 、 History 、 Linguistics 、 Locative case
摘要: This special issue is devoted to a relatively neglected topic in linguistics, namely the verbal component of locative statements. English tends, course, use simple copula utterances like ‘‘The cup on table’’, but many languages, perhaps as half world’s have set alternate verbs, or a‰xes, which contrast this slot.1 Often these are classificatory verbs ‘sitting’, ‘standing’ and ‘lying’. For reason, perhaps, Aristotle listed position among his basic (‘‘noncomposite’’) categories:
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