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Language Systems Indices
Indo-European Typology Project
Citation Record
Lyons, John. 1967. A Note on Possessive, Existential, and Locative Sentences. In: Foundations of Language 3. 390-396.
CASE
- case
- case [adnominal]
- case [dative]
- case [dative] [function of]
- case [dative] [Latin]
- case [directional]
- case [genitive]
- case [locative]
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
- aspect
- aspect [imperfective]
- aspect [perfective] [connection with transitivity and possession]
- aspect [perfective vs. imperfective]
- auxiliary
- causative
- causative [three-place]
- mood
- negation
- negation [existential] [Russian]
- possession
- possession [alienable]
- possession [alienable vs. inalienable]
- possession [connection with transitivity and perfect aspect]
- possession [inalienable]
- possession [Indo-European]
- tense
- voice
- voice [active]
- voice [active vs. passive] [lexicalized]
- voice [passive]
LANGUAGE CHANGE
LANGUAGE RECONSTRUCTION
- existential construction [origin in locative]
- Indo-European
- Indo-European [existential construction]
- Indo-European [locative construction]
- Indo-European [possessive construction]
- possessive construction [origin in locative]
LANGUAGES
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi
- Indo-European languages
- Italian
- Latin
- Latin [Classical]
- Russian
- Russian [nyet] [existential negation]
- Russian [possessive]
LEXICON
LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
- ergative construction
- ergative construction [one-place]
- existential construction
- existential-locative construction
- locative construction
- locative-possessive construction
- locative-possessive construction [Hindi]
- mihi est construction
- mihi est construction [denoting possession]
- mihi est construction [Latin]
- possessive construction
- possessive construction [Indo-European]
- possessive construction [with verb have] [late development] [Indo-European]
- transitive construction
- transitive construction [passive of]
LINGUISTIC ITEMS
- be [copula]
- be [existential]
- ci [Italian]
- dasein [German]
- ekhein [verb denoting possession] [Greek]
- habere [verb denoting possession] [Latin]
- have [auxiliary] [extension from transitives to intransitives]
- have [verb denoting possession] [English]
- there [English]
- y [French]
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
PARTS OF SPEECH
- noun [animate]
- postposition
- postposition [localizing]
- verb [denoting action]
- verb [ditransitive]
- verb [ergative]
- verb [stative]
- verb [stative vs. active]
- verb [transitive]
- verb [translative]
SEMANTICS
SYNTAX
- complement
- complement [locative]
- complement [temporal]
- deixis
- object
- object [indirect]
- particle
- particle [deictic]
- particle [deictic] [existential construction]
- predicate
- subject
- subject [deep]
- subject [surface]
- topic
- transformation
- transitivity
- transitivity [connection with possession and perfect aspect]