Locative subject: classification and ambiguities

Abstract

One of the aims of the paper is to point out to the methodological inconsistency and inadequacy of the current grammatical descriptions of the cases denoting subjective function, and especially, concerning the subjective locative, to point out to the inadequacies of the transformational method as the crucial test for determining the propositional structure of sentence and, within it, the functions and meanings of phrasal sentential constituents. The paper is dominated by the achievements of case and functional grammar, as well as by those of the theory of valency.