Title: Typical Locative Objects and Atypical Locative Objects
Abstract: There are seven kinds of locative objects in the past literatures,but six of them are in debate.The debate origins from two aspects:first,there's no effective method to determine whether an object is locative or not;second,there's no clear borderline between locative objects and patient objects.Location marker can be used to identify whether an object is locative or not and also can be used to identify the intensity of locativity.Some indexes can be used to identify the intensity of patientivity of objects.From the two points above,many so-called locative objects are not real locative objects and all locative objects in fact have some degree of patientivity.The identity of locative objects are relate to the standard that a scholar used.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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