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<h1 class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class="">"Turning owners into actors: Possessive morphology as subject-indexing in languages of the Bougainville region”. </span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class=""> Bill
Palmer’s the person you need.</span></h1>
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<div class="">On 19 Mar 2022, at 11:28, Adam James Ross Tallman <<a href="mailto:ajrtallman@utexas.edu" class="">ajrtallman@utexas.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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I thought there must be sources on this - but I haven't really found anything specific. I'm looking for sources that discuss potential semantic links between possessors in the nominal domain and agents (A subjects) in the verbal domain. Or just semantic explanations
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I am aware of diachronic works that discuss the development of verbal alignment systems from (clausal) nominalizations. For instance, Gildea's work
<i class="">On Reconstructing Grammar </i>gives a good explanation as to why we might find structural similarities between nouns and verbs for diachronic reasons (today's verbal structures were reanalyzed from a nominalized structure).<br class="">
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Generative works, at least dating back to Chomsky's <i class="">Remarks, </i>explain structural homologies between noun and verb structure based on abstract formal schema (like X' theory).</div>
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But, I was wondering if there were works in cognitive grammar or metaphor theory that have attempted to give a more synchronic explanation for potential symmetries between noun and verb phrase structure, based on the idea that noun and verb structures might
have some common schematic form - or based on the idea that there is some metaphorical mapping between referential and event (verby) domains.
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The idea would be that somehow possessors in the nominal (referential) domain are at some abstract level like agents in the verbal (event/situation?) domain (and perhaps analogies with other arguments could be made, but those seem less obvious). Maybe there's
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div>
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