Nicaragua: Locative And Existential Constructions In Ulwa

Nicaragua: Locative And Existential Constructions In Ulwa Andrew Koontz-Garboden, 2009   This article lays 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 those that are completely bare, having only a figure and locative (postpositional phrase) nonverbal predicate. The posture predicates constitute a distinct syntactic...

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