Despite of being fully synonymous at the semantic level, the postpositions él ‘locative/directional’ and ektá ‘locative/directional’ in Lakota (Siouan, Central North America) display different semantic cores in discourse: the semantic prototype for él is the role of locative, while the semantic prototype for ektá is the role of directional. Both the functional synonymy between él and ektá and t...

Words expressing spatial relationships in Hittite are synchronically adverbs, not case forms of nouns as sometimes alleged. They are attested in three distinct syntactic roles: postpositions, preverbs, and freestanding adverbs. Some of these local adverbs are inherited from Proto-Indo-European, while others reflect petrified case forms of nouns. Postpositions from inherited local adverbs origin...

Locative music experiences are often non-linear and as such the final structure of the music heard is guided by the movements of the user. We note an absence of principles regarding how composers should approach the structuring of such locative soundtracks. For instance, how does one compose for a nonlinear soundtrack using linear, pre-composed placed sounds, where fixed musical time is placed ...

This paper presents an exploration platform for locative sonification based on audio feature vectors extracted from urban spaces. Our locative sonification research is part of a larger project called Citygram[17]. Citygram focuses on geospatial research that is concerend with automatically collecting, visualizing, analyzing, and mapping nonocular energies from urban environments. The acoustic d...

This article re-examines the distribution of the class 17 locative prefix kuand its variants kwiand koin the locativisation of nouns in Zulu. To this end an electronic corpus of 5 million running Zulu words — the University of Pretoria Zulu Corpus (PZC) — is queried. We indicate how PZC can be used to highlight previously under-emphasised and overlooked aspects of a seemingly well-documented la...

This paper presents a practice research project based at The Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. Working closely with the cinema to develop a locative or context-aware heritage application for the iPhone, the project aims to enhance the Curzon’s new Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, enabling visitors to gain further insight into the building, projection equipment and the history of cinema ...

In this paper, we put forward a semantic analysis of constructions prepositional phrases introduced by the preposition para with locative meaning combined verbs ser, estar and ficar. proposal, characterise these regarding properties individual-level/ stage-level, modal reading, vagueness location, as well restrictions imposed on subject related to some lexical features, in particular [movable] ...

Abstract We describe two patients who manifested opposite patterns of performance on test batteries that evaluated production, comprehension, and semantic analysis of action verbs on the one hand (e.g. smile, wave, run ) and locative prepositions on the other (e.g. in, on, over ). JP failed all of the verb tests but passed all of the preposition tests, suggesting impaired knowledge of the meani...

This paper describes how spatial description selection can be tied to discourse and spatial context to improve text coherence in a natural language generation domain. The paper argues that, given coherence relations and discourse goals, the selection of spatial descriptions which reflect the hearer’s spatial expectations and echo the intended coherence relation can improve text coherence and th...