0 (in some languages) the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that expresses the place where someone or something is
1 (in some languages) relating to the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that expresses the place where someone or something is:
a locative suffix/preposition
The pattern required a verb with an object and some type of locative phrase.
At the same time, the previously existing set of locative oppositions has been lost (the corresponding affixes survived in other, newly developed, meanings).
Take is usually a transitive verb, yet although it has an obligatory direct-object argument, locative arguments are normally optional.
In this respect they seem rather dissimilar to existentials, which accept locative initial order very naturally and without a marked position of focus.
Therefore, as the children had greater competence in understanding the listeners' point of view, their locative descriptions were more complex.
Therefore, they default to an earlier developing preposition such as a locative.
However, the possible links between the acquisition of locative and causative verbs have not been systematically investigated.
