Possession/modification by simple juxtaposition

[Wolfgang Schulze]

Wouldn't it make sense to refer to Guaraní in order to illustrate 
P[ossess]um/P[ossess]or = Noun/Attribute strategies marked for 
juxtaposition? Taking the data from Maura Velazquez' article "Guarani 
possessive constructions" 
(http://crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter/3-6/Article1.html), the Guarani strategy 
can be illustrated as follows:

Por-Pum:

Maria mesa
Maria table
'Marias table'

Maria ajaka
Maria basket
'Maria's basket'

Noun-Attribute:

py'a rasy
stomach sick
'sick stomach' ~ 'stomach ache'

resa rovy
eye blue
'blue eye(s)'
 
As for Por/Pum, Velazquez writes: "When the PSR [= Por, W.S.] is a 
lexical  noun (...),  nominal  possession is regularly indicated by a 
simple juxtaposition of the two nominals  involved:  N1 (PSR)  N2  (PSM) 
[= Pum,, W.S.].  There is no special morpheme marking the PSR or the 
PSM.  The  designated  (i.e.,  profiled) element is the PSM."

Personally, I wonder whether the rigid pre-modifying strategy, namely 
Por-Pum / Attr-N is documented with juxtaposition at all. In WALS, David 
Gil mentions the "Västerbotten dialect of Swedish, in which alienable 
possessors and colour properties may both be expressed by means of a 
compound construction in which the modifier precedes the head":

Pelle-äpple
Pelle-apple
'Pelle's apple'

rö-äpple
red-apple
'red apple'

But do we have languages in which both juxtaposition and 
pre-modification occur as a general (!) pattern, or is the 
post-modifying Pum-Por - N-Attr correlation (with yuxtaposition) a more 
general option, competing with the heterogeneous Por-Pum / N-Attr 
strategy (again with yuxtaposition)? Summarizing some of the data given 
in this thread, we might state for yuxtaposition:

                 Attr-N                 N-Attr
Por-Pum     e.g. Swedish       e.g. Guaraní      
Pum-Por     e.g. Welsh          ? 

[Both Swedish and Welsh 'partial']

Best wishes,
Wolfgang



-- 

---------------------------------------------------------

*Prof. Dr. Wolfgang 
Schulze                                                                   
  *

----------------------------------------------------------

/Primary contact: 
                                                                                              
  /

Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft     

Dept. II / F 13                  
                                                                                 
  

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München                                 
                      

Ludwigstraße 25                                        
                                        

*Postanschrift / Postal address:*

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

D-80539 München                                  
                                                                              
  

Tel.: 0049-(0)89-2180-2486 (Secretary) [1.OG, R 
102]                                                           

         0049-(0)89-2180-5343 (Office) [1. OG, R 
105]                                           

Fax:  0049-(0)89-2180-5345                                       
                                        

Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de 
<mailto:W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> /// Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de 
<mailto:Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de>       

Web: New page (change bookmarks!): http://www.ats.lmu.de/index.html  

Personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschulze.in-devir.com

 ----------------------------------------------------------

/Second 
contact:                                                                                                                     
  /

Katedra Germanistiký        
                                                                              
  

Fakulta humanitných 
vied                                                                                
 

Univerzita Mateja Béla / Banská 
Bystrica                                    

Tajovského 
40                                                                                                                       
 

SK-97401 Banská 
Bystrica                                                                                
 

Tel: 
(00421)-(0)48-4465108                                                         
 

Fax: (00421)-(0)48-4465512   
                                                                           

Email: Schulze at fhv.umb.sk 
<mailto:Schulze at fhv.umb.sk>                                                                             
 

Web: http://www.fhv.umb.sk/app/user.php?user=schulze        

----------------------------------------------------------

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20081122/96d86584/attachment.htm>