Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2013
XII, 341 pages
978-90-272-7300-0 (ISBN)
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The analysis of constructions denoting possession (particularly, but not exclusively, in English) has long presented a challenge to morpho-syntactic theory and has been a topic of debate for some time. The papers presented here afford thought-provoking insights into the morphosyntactic nature of possessive markers under a variety of theoretical frameworks. The distribution of phrases expressing possession is explored in a range of languages (including English, Swedish, Urdu and West Flemish), with rigorous exploitation of corpus data and careful statistical analysis. Descriptions and analyses represent the state of the art in research into possessive constructions. Particular attention is paid to the English possessive 's, both synchronically and diachronically. This volume is essential for scholars interested in theoretical and corpus-based linguistics, morphosyntactic constructions, and the expression of possession.
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Introduction
Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan Scott
Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English: Split and group genitives
Cynthia L. Allen
Variation in the form and function of the possessive morpheme in Late Middle and Early Modern English
Teo Juvonen
The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts*
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints
Catherine O'Connor, Joan Maling and Barbora Skarabela
Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge
Kersti Börjars, David Denison, Grzegorz Krajewski and Alan Scott
A cognitive analysis of John's hat
Richard A. Hudson
The oblique genitive in English
John Payne
The marker of the English "Group Genitive" is a special clitic, not an inflection
Stephen R. Anderson
Two prenominal possessors in West Flemish
Liliane Haegeman
A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder : The structure and uses of proper-name compounds in Swedish*
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Possessive clitics and ezafe in Urdu
Tina Bögel and Miriam Butt
References
Index
Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan Scott
Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English: Split and group genitives
Cynthia L. Allen
Variation in the form and function of the possessive morpheme in Late Middle and Early Modern English
Teo Juvonen
The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts*
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints
Catherine O'Connor, Joan Maling and Barbora Skarabela
Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge
Kersti Börjars, David Denison, Grzegorz Krajewski and Alan Scott
A cognitive analysis of John's hat
Richard A. Hudson
The oblique genitive in English
John Payne
The marker of the English "Group Genitive" is a special clitic, not an inflection
Stephen R. Anderson
Two prenominal possessors in West Flemish
Liliane Haegeman
A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder : The structure and uses of proper-name compounds in Swedish*
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Possessive clitics and ezafe in Urdu
Tina Bögel and Miriam Butt
References
Index
