General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

In many languages, it is possible to describe the location of any entity with respect to a landmark object without specifying the exact place that the locatum occupies (e.g. English in ). Such vocabulary items usually contrast with items that belong to the same categories but have more restricted se...

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