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<div class="">Instances where the possessor “takes over" and determines the properties of the whole NP have been termed “prominent possessors”. See this site for a project on the subject, led by Irina Nikolaeva (<a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/prominent-possessors/" class="">https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/prominent-possessors/</a>)</div>
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Greville G. Corbett<br class="">
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English (I1)<br class="">
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br class="">
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<div class=""><i class="">Canonical Morphology and Syntax.</i> Also available through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at: <a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199604326.do" class="">http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199604326.do</a></div>
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<div class="">On 2 Feb 2017, at 10:52, David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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Is anybody familiar with languages in which:<br class="">
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(1) NPs exhibit different properties (coding, syntactic behaviour, or whatever) depending on whether they're animate or inanimate; and<br class="">
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(2) If an NPs consists of possessor and possessed nouns, where the possessor is animate and the possessed is inanimate, such NPs are treated as animate, even though the inanimate possessed noun is otherwise the head of the NP. (For example, in such a language,
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I am currently working on such a case, and am wondering how commonplace this is, and whether analyses have already been proposed for similar patterns in other languages. (I have a vague recollection of having encountered something similar in the past, but
can't quite place it.) In principle one could imagine analogous mismatches for features other than animacy.<br class="">
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David<br class="">
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