30.3913, FYI: Database of Prominent Internal Possessors

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Subject: 30.3913, FYI: Database of Prominent Internal Possessors

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 01:26:25
From: Irina Nikolaeva [irina_a_nikolaeva at yahoo.com]
Subject: Database of Prominent Internal Possessors

 
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new online Database of Prominent
Internal Possessors hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of
Surrey (www.smg.surrey.ac.uk). The database was created as part of the
AHRC-funded project 'Prominent possessors' awarded to Irina Nikolaeva (PI),
Oliver Bond and Greville G. Corbett (Project reference AH/M010701/1).

Database of Prominent Internal Possessors 
https://pips.surrey.ac.uk

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.

The database targets two phenomena: internal possessors indexed on the verb
and internal possessors that act as pivots in switch-reference constructions.
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. 

How to cite:
Bárány, András, Oliver Bond & Sandy Ritchie. 2019. Database of Prominent
Internal Possessors. University of Surrey. https://pips.surrey.ac.uk

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:

Bárány, András, Oliver Bond & Irina Nikolaeva (eds.). 2019. Prominent Internal
Possessors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology





 



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