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<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">Dear David,</SPAN></P>
<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">This is not strictly about animacy-inanimacy distinction, but may be related. Korean has an elaborate system of morphological honorification, which requires that if the sentential subject is [+honorific] (which assumes [+animate]), the predicate should be marked with the honorification marker </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 함초롬바탕; LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">–</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">si-. When the subject NP consists of possessor and possessed nouns, when the possessor is [+honorific], the predicate is sometimes marked with </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 함초롬바탕; LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">–</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">si-. The enabling condition is not straightforwardly clear, but in general terms, the possessed should be either inalienable from the possessor (as in (1)) or in “significant” metonymic relation with the possessor (as in (2) and (3)). The former include body-parts, the latter, hometown, house, family member, riches (money), sayings, personality traits, beliefs, etc. The latter category shows individual variation because the “significance” decision is sometimes subjective.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt"> ‘The teacher’s eyes are swollen.’</SPAN></P>
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<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">(3) sensayngnim-uy kocip-i sey-si-ta</SPAN></P>
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<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt"> ‘The teacher is stubborn.’</SPAN></P>
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<P class=0 style="TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-pagination: none; mso-padding-alt: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="LETTER-SPACING: 0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 함초롬바탕; mso-font-width: 100%; mso-text-raise: 0pt">I hope you find this phenomenon relevant for your research.</SPAN></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE"><BR>-----------<B>Original Message</B>-----------<BR><B>Sender :</B> David Gil < gil@shh.mpg.de ><BR><B>To :</B> "lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" < lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org ><BR><B>Date :</B> 2017-02-02 19:52:56<BR><B>Subject :</B> [Lingtyp] query: possessives and animacy<BR><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>Is anybody familiar with languages in which:<BR><BR>(1) NPs exhibit different properties (coding, syntactic behaviour, or <BR>whatever) depending on whether they're animate or inanimate; and<BR><BR>(2) If an NPs consists of possessor and possessed nouns, where the <BR>possessor is animate and the possessed is inanimate, such NPs are <BR>treated as animate, even though the inanimate possessed noun is <BR>otherwise the head of the NP. (For example, in such a language, "John's <BR>book" would be considered animate.)<BR><BR>I am currently working on such a case, and am wondering how commonplace <BR>this is, and whether analyses have already been proposed for similar <BR>patterns in other languages. (I have a vague recollection of having <BR>encountered something similar in the past, but can't quite place it.) <BR>In principle one could imagine analogous mismatches for features other <BR>than animacy.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>David<BR><BR>-- <BR>David Gil<BR><BR>Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<BR>Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History<BR>Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany<BR><BR>Email: gil@shh.mpg.de<BR>Office Phone (Germany): +49-3641686834<BR>Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-81281162816<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Lingtyp mailing list<BR>Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<BR>http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><CENTER><A href="http://www.hufs.ac.kr/" target=_blank><IMG style="FLOAT: none; CLEAR: none" src="http://webmail.hufs.ac.kr/images/webmail_auth.gif" border=0></A></CENTER>