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Prominent internal possessors

Bárány, András, editor, Bond, Oliver, editor, Nikolaeva, Irina, editor

Overview

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument - like behaviour of internal possessors. In some languages, adnominal possessors - or a subset thereof - figure more prominently than expected in the phrase-external syntax, by controlling predicate agreement and/or acting as a switch-reference pivot in same-subject relations. There is no independent evidence that such possessors are external to the possessive phrase or that they assume head status within it. This creates a puzzle for virtually all syntactic theories, as it is generally believed that agreement and switch-reference target phrasal heads rather than dependents.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Comparative linguistics. / Grammar, Comparative and general Clauses Cross-cultural studies. / Grammar, Comparative and general Possessives Cross-cultural studies.
• ISBN: 0198812140, 9780198812142

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P299.P67 P69 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE