Publications

Publication details [#2161]

Clark, Eve V. 1970. Locationals: A study of the relations between 'existential', 'locative', and 'possessive' constructions. Working Papers on Language Universals 3 : L1–L37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

existential utterance | locative utterance | possessive construction

Annotation

4 construction types are compared across a core sample of 30 languages, and this reveals a systematic relation between them in each language. This relation can be accounted for by two discourse rules.

Reprints

Greenberg, Joseph Harold. 1978. Locationals: Existential, locative, and possessive constructions. In Greenberg, Joseph Harold, ed. Universals of human language. Stanford UP. pp. 85–126.