External Possession

Payne, Doris L.; Barshi, Immanuel

doi:10.1075/tsl.39.03pay

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“…Many languages around the world make use of a construction known as EXTERNAL POSSESSION (see, e.g., Payne & Barshi, 1999;Vergnaud & Zubizarreta, 1992). Typical examples are given in (1) from German (1a), French (1b), and Hebrew (1c).…”

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German possessor datives: raised and affected

Lee-Schoenfeld

2006

J Comp German Linguistics

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The German POSSESSOR DATIVE CONSTRUCTION (PDC) is an instance of EXTERNAL POSSESSION: a single nominal acts simultaneously as possessor, that is, a subpart of a larger nominal phrase, and as a BENEFACTIVE or MALEFACTIVE (AFFECTEE) argument of the verb. The challenge is to understand the mechanisms that make this dual functioning possible. Following Landau [Lingua 107 (1999) 1], this paper presents a POSSESSOR RAISING analysis, arguing that the POSSESSOR DATIVE (PD) moves from the specifier of the possessed nominal to a verbal argument position. The analysis is implemented in a dynamic structure-building framework, where heads with their selectional features are introduced in the course of the derivation, and it is in principle possible that an argument that gets merged into the structure to take on one thematic role raises into a newly built sentence domain to fulfill another thematic role. This movement and the resulting double h-role assignment are crucially driven by formal features; that is, both stem from the fact that, in its origin site, the raised argument is not case-licensed. An additional caselicensing head is needed for the derivation to converge. This head is an affectee light verb which assigns inherent dative case to the argument in its specifier. Thus, unlike Landau's account of PDCs in Hebrew, where PDs can be interpreted as affected

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German possessor datives: raised and affected

Lee-Schoenfeld

2006

J Comp German Linguistics

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“…Thus, the pure locational semantics 'in one's home', 'in one's family', 'in the closure of s.o'. as in (71) is still preserved with the perfect in Standard Russian: 25 For the sake of clarity I will distinguish between the predicative possessor and external possessor following, inter alia, Payne and Barshi (1999) and Haspelmath (1999). While both readings are presumably etymologically related they nevertheless exhibit different functional and syntactic properties and, hence, should be kept apart.…”

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The so-called possessive perfect in North Russian and the Circum-Baltic area. A diachronic and areal account

Seržant¹

2012

Lingua

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“…On distingue deux types de possessives : la construction dite « prédicative » dont nous venons de parler en 1.2 (voir exemple [24]) et la construction à possesseur externe 22 évoquée notamment dans l'exemple (12) (voir exemple [25]), qui est caractérisée par une dislocation du syntagme possesseur-possédé.…”

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L’adessif dans l’expression de la possession en estonien

Lesage¹

2017

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External Possession

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German possessor datives: raised and affected

German possessor datives: raised and affected

The so-called possessive perfect in North Russian and the Circum-Baltic area. A diachronic and areal account

L’adessif dans l’expression de la possession en estonien

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