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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:10:33
From: Christian Ruvalcaba [ruvalca1 at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: DATE 	Message Subject ( Help ) 	Msg # 	 Deriving Possession from Location, Accompaniment, and Paths to Nowhere: a Microcomparative Analysis of Clausal Possession in English and Spanish

 
Institution: University of Arizona 
Program: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2018 

Author: Christian Ruvalcaba

Dissertation Title: Deriving Possession from Location, Accompaniment, and Paths 
to Nowhere:: a Microcomparative Analysis of Clausal
Possession in English and Spanish 

Dissertation URL:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329377292_DERIVING_POSSESSION_FROM

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)


Dissertation Director(s):
Andrew Carnie
Heidi Harley
Antxón Olarrea
Rudolph Troike

Dissertation Abstract:

Building on decompositional analyses of prepositions and possessive verbs
(Harley 2002,  Svenonius 2010, Levinson 2011) this dissertation develops a
microcomparative analysis of clausal possession constructions in Spanish and
English within a Minimalist Program framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000). The
overall claim is that the syntax and meaning of clausal possession
constructions are determined, in large part, by the syntax and semantics of an
overt or incorporated preposition. Overt prepositions signal the presence of a
light preposition, or p, in a structure like the following: [pP p [PP P …]]
(Svenonius 2010, Levinson 2011). The light preposition (or its absence)
straightforwardly derives the structural hierarchies and semantics of both
well-known and overlooked clausal possession constructions. When the light
preposition is absent, the P can incorporate into a stative verb and generate
verbs of possession (i.e., have). Both the type of P and the type of verb
determines the spell-out and meaning of the resulting relation. When the light
preposition is present, it determines the structural and semantic relation
between two arguments. In addition, I show that light prepositions can be
categorized by the c-command relation between possessor and possessum within
the structures they generate, similar to Harley’s (2002) PHAVE / PLOC
distinction. One set (the PHAVE set) includes light prepositions that generate
structures where the possessor c-command the possessum, like pCONTROL
(Levinson 2011), pDATIVE (Levinson 2011) and pCONSIST (a new light preposition
that accounts for sentences like la casa es de adobe, ‘the house is made out
of adobe’). Members of the novel PLOC set, introduced in this dissertation,
create a structure where the possessum c-commands the possessor. This set
minimally includes light prepositions like pBELONG, pTARGET, pCONTROLLED,
pEXTENT among others. This offers a new way to account for the seemingly
locative syntax of possession constructions across languages.




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