[Lingtyp] body-location vs. event-location

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at stanford.edu
Thu Feb 28 13:29:39 UTC 2019


(Were were you hurt? In the stomach / In a fitness club)

this posting on my blog contains a note about the marking of these two concepts in the world's languages (with a suggestion that it might be related to inalienable vs. alienable possession). there is no doubt some literature on the matter, but i don't know it.  comments welcome.

2/27/19: Body-location, event-location:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/27/body-location-event-location/

arnold





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