Re: Q's abuot trigger again

Quoting Javier BF <uaxuctum@...>:

> >> Of
> >> course, "in his bed" is inessive, but it's also a place, and that's why
> it
> >> can be locative as well, right?
> >
> >I'm unfamiliar with this particular piece of terminology, but as far as I
> >understand it, Javier's using "locative" for mandatory and "inessive" for
> >optional specifications of place.
>
> No, actually, since in the same paragraph I was
> mentioning "locative object" ("the garden" of
> the famous example), I chose the word "inessive"
> so as to avoid repeating the word "locative" or
> having to say something like "locative locative"
> to emphasize that then I was referring to places
> seen as locations of an event rather than as
> affected participants of it.
OK, thanks for the clarification.

                                                            Andreas

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