Light and Heavy Locative Inversions: A Lexical and Constructional Perspective = Light and Heavy Locative Inversions: A Lexical and Constructional Perspective

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English displays two subtypes of locative inversions, light vs. heavy inversions, depending on the heaviness of the postverbal NP. This paper discusses how to analyze the similarities and differences between these two types of locative inversions under the framework of HPSC (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar). A crucial device of HPSG for our analysis is the type inheritance hierarchy where constraints on a supertype are inherited to its subtypes when no conflict exists between them. The similarities between the light and heavy inversions are captured by the constructional type hierarchy as well as the lexical type hierarchy. The different properties of the light and heavy Iocative inversions are captured by the assumption that they are separate constructions and thus have their own constructional and lexical subtype constraints. The analysis presented here shows that the intricate and complex properties of these two related types of inversion could follow from the interactions among constructional and lexical constraints.