Re: Q's abuot trigger again

>> 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.

"Inessive" in fact is only a kind of "locative"
- the kind expressed in English by "in" (which
could be rephrased as "at the inside of", using
the general locative "at"). I'm not aware of any
term that refers to mandatory locative arguments
as opposed to merely optional locatives.

Cheers,
Javier

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