RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Borillo, Andrée YR 2006 T1 Fonction discursive de la structure d’ “inversion locative” JF Lingvisticæ Investigationes VO 29 IS 1 SP 25 OP 41 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/li.29.1.04bor PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4169, AB A locative inversion (LI) sentence is a distinct construction characterized by the presence in clause-initial position of a locative or temporal complement (which is either subcategorized by the verb or operates as an adjunct) followed by the verb itself followed by the subject . The discourse function of such a construction is to establish the spatial or temporal setting of a discourse-new entity (represented by the subject) within the framework of a more general context already presented in a preceding discourse. The verb is there only to provide and denote a specific manifestation of the existence, localisation or state of this entity, but the information it conveys can be often reduced to a minimum (to be, to be found) or even omitted. On the contrary, the subject in clause-final position is assigned a predicate-focus function (“presentational focus”) from which the following discourse is generally bound to develop. In this study, only LI constructions with spatial complements are given a description of their most salient syntactic properties and of their discursive effects., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/li.29.1.04bor