Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-881214-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
possessors are external to the possessive phrase or that they assume head status within it. This creates a puzzle for virtually all syntactic theories, as it is generally believed that agreement and switch-reference target phrasal heads rather than dependents.
Following an introduction to the typology of the phenomenon and an overview of possible syntactic analyses, chapters in the volume offer more focussed case studies from a wide range of languages spoken in the Americas, Eurasia, South Asia, and Australia. The contributions are largely based on novel data collected by the authors and present thorough discussions of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of prominent internal possessors in the relevant languages.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and students from graduate level upwards in the fields of comparative linguistics, syntax, typology, and semantics.