This paper discusses semantic factors contributing to the resultative interpretation of predicates in the Japanese te-ir construction. The construction ambiguously takes on either progressive or resultative meanings. This ambiguity is due to the lexical meaning of the verb, and it is the purpose of this paper to single out and characterize the classes of verbs which take on the resultative mean...

Abstract The accessibility hierarchy was first proposed by Keenan & Comrie (1977) to describe the cross-linguistic distribution of relative markers in terms likelihood relativization different syntactic roles. is also commonly believed reflect constraints on possible changes domain relativization. For example, predicts that locative relatives develop into general relativizers should expand ...

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance an...

This document presents a state of the art review of locative media projects. It also explains the concept of location awareness and its different categories. It finally explains to what extent this spatial feature named “location” is used in terms of social activity by allowing to infer multiple levels of knowledge.

In the field of participatory locative media practices the research aims to construct an experimental ground on which to problematize the process of mapping contemporary Indigenous memories of an Australian urban landscape within the cultural, spatial, social and technological issues that arise from collecting, classifying, re-situating, enacting and reinterpreting on territory archives of loca...

In two experiments we investigated the use of German locative expressions as a function of the spatial relation between a reference object (RO) and a to-be-located object (LO). In the experiments, a speaker described to another participant, by locative expressions, where LO can be found in relation to RO. LO (a blue dot) was presented at different positions around RO (a red dot). The listener s...