Comparative Concept: presentational location construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
presentational location construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | presentational location construction • presentational locative |
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the construction expressing a presentational information packaging of location. Example: in In the room was a request for breakfast, the request for breakfast is being introduced into the discourse, anchored by its spatial relation to the room. (Sections 10.4.1, 10.4.3)