Possession in Germanic

DP-internal double agreement is not double Agree: Consequences of Agree-based case assignment within DP

“…e.g. Corver (1990), Haider (1992, Delsing (1998), Haegeman (2004), Sternefeld (2006, , Weiß (2008). We will briefly list a number of arguments from the literature.…”

“…(2) PDC in German: dative possessor > possessive pronoun > possessee The construction has been described for a variety of Germanic languages including West-Jutlandic dialects of Danish, (Colloquial) German, German dialects, Dutch, Middle Dutch, Dutch dialects, West Flemish, Frisian, Middle English, and Norwegian (Olsen, 1989(Olsen, , 1996Corver, 1990;Authier, 1992;Haider, 1992;Lindauer, 1995;Lö bel, 1996;Delsing, 1998;Weiß, 1998;Kappus, 1999;Weerman and De Wit, 1999;Zifonun, 2003;Haegeman, 2003Haegeman, , 2004Strunk, 2004Strunk, , 2005Sternefeld, 2006;Alexiadou et al, 2007;Heck and Mü ller, 2007;Weiß, 2008;Corver and Van Koppen, 2010). The PDC also occurs outside of Germanic, e.g.…”

Basque Genitive Case and Multiple Checking

“…As the examples in (17) remind us, there is ample crosslinguistic evidence for a possessive-phrase on top of QP and below the DP projection, from a variety of languages and authors: (17) Seminal work by Szabolcsi is taken in the generative tradition as the main reference for proposing a functional projection right below DP connected with possessives; similar conclusions have been reached independently by many scholars, which may differ in the qualification of that functional projection: nominal inflection (Szabolcsi 1994 and related work); possessor (De Wit 1997, Delsing 1998, Schoolemmer 1998; Number (Picallo 1991); or just AGR (Alexiadou et. al.…”

Possessive Relatives and (Heavy) Pied-Piping

“…Szabolcsi 1994 and the references there). Following ideas by Chomsky (1970), Delsing (1993Delsing ( , 1998, Postma (1997) and others, I assume that all genitive phrases -whether periphrastic or morphological -are (initially) a complement of N.…”

“…Furthermore, this 'doubling construction' exists in West Flemish and Norwegian; see e.g. Haegeman (2003) and Delsing (1998), respectively. Often, the pronoun is lexically reduced to z'n 'his' or d'r 'her' in Dutch, but that is by no means necessary (contrary to what is often suggested in the literature).…”