This paper, based on Nam's (1995) semantic typology of locatives, aims to characterize the formal (syntactic/morphological) structures of locative expressions in natural language, and identifies typological implications among the different types of locatives.
for example, we show that locative PPs are relatively free to scramble (fronting/extraposing) but locative VPs are not; and that if goal arguments can be expressed in a PP in a language L, then source arguments can, too.