<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">We
are pleased to announce the launch of a new online <b>Database of Prominent Internal Possessors </b>hosted by the Surrey
Morphology Group at the University of Surrey (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">www.smg.surrey.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">). The
database was created as part of the AHRC-funded project </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/projects/prominent-possessors/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">'Prominent
possessors'</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> awarded to Irina Nikolaeva (PI), Oliver Bond
and Greville G. Corbett (Project reference </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM010708%2F1" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">AH/M010701/1</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">).</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Database
of Prominent Internal Possessors</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://pips.surrey.ac.uk/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">https://pips.surrey.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">This typological
database is a searchable repository for data on Prominent Internal Possessors
across a diverse set of languages. A Prominent Internal Possessor is
defined as a possessor that behaves, fully or partially, as if it were a clause-level
element and the head of its own phrase, even though there is no independent
evidence that it is external to the nominal phrase to which the possessed item
belongs.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The
database targets two phenomena: internal possessors indexed on the verb and
internal possessors that act as pivots in switch-reference constructions. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">It explores examples from over 50 languages from 27
different genera using responsive filters to restrict the results based on
their grammaticality, the syntactic relation involved and the properties of the
possessor. The individual language profiles present the evidence base used to
support the phrase internal status of the possessor and key literature on which
their analysis is based. The filtering system allows the user to test their own
analytical hypotheses by varying parameters. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">How to cite:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Bárány, András, Oliver Bond
& Sandy Ritchie. 2019. Database of Prominent Internal Possessors.
University of Surrey. </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://pips.surrey.ac.uk/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">https://pips.surrey.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The
database accompanies a book on the same subject, which provides a
cross-linguistic overview of relevant phenomena and detailed analyses of key
languages in which Prominent Internal Possessors are evident:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Bárány,
András, Oliver Bond & Irina Nikolaeva (eds.). 2019. <i>Prominent Internal
Possessors.</i> Oxford: Oxford University Press. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">
</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">---</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1">Prof. Irina Nikolaeva, FBA, MAE<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of London, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1"><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php" target="_blank">https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php</a><br></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>