Spatial Expressions In Sinhala: Appearance of Verb Forms

Most of the studies done on locative constructions in many languages show the relationship between the figure and the ground in terms of geometrical and/or topological terms. This paper shows that in Sinhala the locative expressions answer the question not only Where is the object X?' but also...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tilakaratne, Sunanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1992-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/640