7. Inalienable possession and the interpretation of determiners

Inalienable possession constructions in French

“…Thus, the body of Jean encloses the extension of the hand in (20). Guéron (2003) further claims that le, la, and les in French are not determiners but classifiers, such as those that exist in Chinese or Korean, in contrast to Vergnaud and Zubizarreta's (1992) proposal that the determiners are expletive. This configuration is associated with all instances of a ''possessive'' construal.…”

“…Third, the possessor/antecedent must asymmetrically c-command the possessee/anaphor. Though Guéron (2003) is an extension of Guéron (1985), they are different from each other in some important respects. Let us first examine Guéron's (2003) ''feature binding'' and ''locative small clause (LSC)'' approach.…”

“…Guéron (1985Guéron ( , 2003 claims that syntactic constraints on IPoss construals are essentially the same as those on anaphoric binding. She further argues that the contrast between English and French should be attributed to the grammatical status of the determiner.…”

Verbs of pain and accusative subjects in Romanian

“…1 The syntax of inalienable possession J. Guéron (1983Guéron ( , 1985Guéron ( , 2003, J.-R. Vergnaud & M.L. Zubizaretta (1992) and J.…”

On the difference between telicity and perfectivity

“…In Guéron (2003), I propose that in sentences like (7a and b) each argument participates in two distinct transitivity relations. One is the physical relation between the implicit hand of the subject and the explicit hand of the object, which checks a number feature in vP.…”