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Languages, 2022 Noun–noun concatenations can differ along two parameters. They can be compounds, i.e., single words, or constructs, i.e., constituents, and they can have modificational non-heads or referential non-heads. Of the four logical possibilities, one was argued
Marijke De Belder
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The syntactic behaviour of possessives in the Romance languages
Revista de Filología Románica, 2012 Possessives in the Romance languages show a rather complex behaviour, turning out quite different when comparing the different languages. Our goal is to follow a generative approach of the Possessive Phrase (POSSP) and its possible combinations with ...
Xavier Frías Conde
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Evaluative prenominal possessives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 In this paper, the properties of Spanish evaluative prenominal possessives (i.e. the affective possessive preceding a proper name, the so-called “emphatic possessive”, and the possessive in the Old and American Spanish doubled possessive construction ...
Luis Eguren
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Feature interpretability and the positions of 2nd person possessives in Brazilian Portuguese
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2016 Interpretability and valuation of φ-features (Chomsky, 2001; Pesetsky and Torrego, 2007) have played a central role in the investigation of language universals.
Bruna Karla Pereira
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Algumas observações sobre os possessivos em português
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2013 The linguistic description of possessives is controversial. In traditional grammar they are defined as carriers of the meaning of possession or belonging; however, this paper intends to prove that in many cases such a meaning does not appear, and ...
Małgorzata Wielgosz
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Prenominal possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver versus mayner a khaver
Linguistics, 2022 This article provides a systematic comparison and detailed analysis of two prenominal possessive constructions in Yiddish, the familiar mayn khaver ‘my friend’ and the less well-known mayner a khaver ‘a friend of mine.’ It is demonstrated that the first ...
Roehrs Dorian
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Beyond Possession Existence: Duration and Co-Possession [PDF]
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 This paper introduces two tasks: determining (a) the duration of possession relations and (b) co-possessions, i.e., whether multiple possessors possess a possessee at the same time. We present new annotations on top of corpora annotating possession existence and experimental results.
Dhivya Chinnappa +2 more
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Description and determination in Tanti Dargwa NPs
Linguistics, 2022 This paper focuses on the noun phrase in Tanti Dargwa (East Caucasian) and presents evidence for the distinction between modifiers proper (adjectival phrases, participial relative clauses and non-genitive adnominal NPs) and determiner-like elements ...
Lander Yury
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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework.
Jeffrey Keith Parrott
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Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance
Moderna Språk, 2020 Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with
Giuseppina Silvestri
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