Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from Äiwoo

This paper argues that possession is syntactically category-flexible. While it is clear that in many languages possession is mostly grounded in and operates in the nominal extended projection (Szabolcsi 1983; Kayne 1993), I show that this cannot be universal. The empirical part of this article is a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roversi, Giovanni
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157414