30.2303, Books: Prominent Internal Possessors: Barany, Bond, Nikolaeva (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:29:56
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Prominent Internal Possessors: Barany, Bond, Nikolaeva (eds.)

 


Title: Prominent Internal Possessors 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/prominent-internal-possessors-9780198812142 


Editor: Andras Barany
Editor: Oliver Bond
Editor: Irina Nikolaeva

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198812142 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 90.00


Abstract:

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview
of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-like
behavior of internal possessors. In some languages, adnominal possessors - or
a subset thereof - figure more prominently than expected in the
phrase-external syntax, by controlling predicate agreement and/or acting as a
switch-reference pivot in same-subject relations. There is no independent
evidence that such possessors are external to the possessive phrase or that
they assume head status within it. This creates a puzzle for virtually all
syntactic theories, as it is generally believed that agreement and
switch-reference target phrasal heads rather than dependents.

Following an introduction to the typology of the phenomenon and an overview of
possible syntactic analyses, chapters in the volume offer more focused case
studies from a wide range of languages spoken in the Americas, Eurasia, South
Asia, and Australia. The contributions are largely based on novel data
collected by the authors and present thorough discussions of the syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic properties of prominent internal possessors in the
relevant languages. 

The volume will be of interest to researchers and students from graduate level
upwards in the fields of comparative linguistics, syntax, typology, and
semantics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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