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Evaluative prenominal possessives in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: 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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Algumas observações sobre os possessivos em português [PDF]

open access: yesStudia 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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Feature interpretability and the positions of 2nd person possessives in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesFilologia 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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Possessions and memories [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Psychology, 2021
People often acquire souvenirs and photographs to facilitate remembering, but possessions and memories can relate to each other in a variety of ways. This review paper presents four different connection types found between meaningful things in our everyday lives and our personal memories.
Van den Hoven, Elise   +2 more
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Postmemory and Possession [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2020
This paper examines the phenomena of ‘postmemory’ as a mode of possession that responds to experiences of suffering. As such, the hyper-connectivity it is concerned with is not that of the digitalisation of contemporary life but is rather ‘vertical’ hyper-connectivity indicating the disturbance of past injustices that have neither been mourned nor ...
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On the Structure of Indefinite Possessives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
I present evidence that indefinite possessives display some peculiar semantic properties distinguishing them from other types of possessive DPs. In particular, indefinite possessives do not license contextual interpretations, which are instead available ...
Storto, Gianluca
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Beyond Possession Existence: Duration and Co-Possession [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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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Prenominal possessives in Yiddish: mayn khaver versus mayner a khaver

open access: yesLinguistics, 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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Description and determination in Tanti Dargwa NPs

open access: yesLinguistics, 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

open access: yesLinguistica 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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