9.1393, Qs: Phon acquisition, Inalienable possession

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Subject: 9.1393, Qs: Phon acquisition, Inalienable possession

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Date:  Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:21:31 +0100
From:  Martin J Ball <mj.ball at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Greek Phonological Acquisition

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Date:  Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Takae Tsujioka <tsujiokt at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject:  Inalienable possession expressions

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:21:31 +0100
From:  Martin J Ball <mj.ball at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Greek Phonological Acquisition

One of my final year project students is investigating first language
acquisition of modern Greek phonology, and is finding it very
difficult to identify existing research in this area (or on
developmental phonological disorders in Greek). We'd be very grateful
for references to published work in English or in Greek, and/or the
names and e-mail addresses of any researchers working in this area.

She will be happy to forward results from her data collection in due
course as a return.

Please contact Ismini Toli directly (not my e-mail address):
toli-ie at ulst.ac.uk

With thanks

Martin J. Ball
Professor of Phonetics and Linguistics
University of Ulster


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Date:  Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Takae Tsujioka <tsujiokt at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject:  Inalienable possession expressions


I am curious to know cross-linguistic distribution of different types of
clausal inalienable possession expressions. Four of the kinds I have
so far encountered are listed below.

(i) with the pseudo-participle/possessional adjective
	English: 	John is blue-eyed, dark-haired child
	Dutch: 		Deze jurk is geblokt.
			'This dress is chequered.' (Postma 1997)
(ii) with a copula verb
	Spanish:	Juan es largo de piernas
			Juan is long of legs
			'Juan has long legs.' (Espanol-Echevarria 1997)
	French:		Sylvie est jolie des yeux
			Sylvie is beautiful of eyes
			'Sylvie has beautiful eyes.'
(iii) with a verb equivalent to 'do'
	Japanese:	John wa  aoi me o  site iru
			JohnTOP blue eyeACC done is/has
			'John has blue eyes.'
(iv) with multiple nominative NPs.
	Japanese:	John ga(wa) me ga aoi
			JohnNOM    eye NOM blue
			'John has blue eyes.'

I would like to learn cross-linguistic distribution of the above types,
as well as others. Some of the questions I am interested in are as
follows:

A.  Is a particular expression limited to inalienable possession?
	ex. English: John is blue-eyed vs. *John is blue-cared.
	
B.  What kind of inalienable possession (body parts, abstract properties,
kinship, part-whole)?

C.  Is there animate/inanimate variation?

D.  For languages in Type (ii), are there differences between 'pretty of
face', 'broad of shoulder', 'dark of skin' vs. 'blue of eyes', long of
eyelashes', 'short of fingers'? That is, between a case in which the
adjectival modification could extend to the whole (possessor), and a case
in which such modification is not conceivable.

E.  For languages in Type (iii), are there differences between 'blue
eyes', 'long legs', vs. 'long hair', 'long nail', etc. The former is not
(in general) volitionally controlled, whereas the latter can be.

Any input on data, comments, references are greatly appreciated. Please
send a message to:	

		tsujiokt at gusun.georgetown.edu

I will post a summary on the results. Thank you very much in advance!

Takae Tsujioka
Georgetown University



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