Publication details
The Locative Inversion Construction and the Character of the Path
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Discourse and Interaction 2, ed. R.Povolná and O.Dontcheva-Navrátilová |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | the locative inversion construction; the character of the path |
| Description | The paper shows that, as opposed to the motion event whose path is encoded by means of the into-directional phrase, a motion event encoded in the to-phrase cannot be taken as a contrastive variant of a motion that is construed as a type of dynamic existence of the entity. |