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Possessor Extraction in English and Danish

“…It seems, however, that another function of det than the one it has in cleft sentences, namely existential or deictic det also allows for PE. The PE examples from the internet (( 12)-( 13)) and Dahlerup (1926) Fifth, all of the example sentences in my experiment have an overt possessed NP, as in (23a) and (24a), although a construction with ellipsis, as in (23b) and (24b), might also be possible. The acceptability of these has not yet been tested and they do therefore not have any grammaticality marking, but, anecdotally, the few people I have asked about these sentences find (23b) and (24b) as acceptable as (23a) and (24a).…”

“…Whoᵢ is it _ᵢ's bike? (Vikner 2014, 204) (2) is an example of Danish PE, which should also be impossible, but there are traces of the phenomenon in literature on Danish grammar (Dahlerup 1926;Ravnholt 2006). The mention of PE examples in these texts as well as examples from the internet and my preliminary survey suggest that PE might be acceptable to some speakers in colloquial Danish.…”

“…PE is not mentioned as an option in the grammars I have reviewed (Hansen and Besides the presence of PE in Danish, the data in Dahlerup (1926) and Ravnholt (2006) imply that there is an issue with the pronouns hvis [whose] and hvem [who]. The interrogative pronoun hvem has the possessive form hvis (Hansen and Heltoft 2011, 602), and if we were to simply add possessive -s to hvem we would not arrive at two homophonous forms as the English whose and who's.…”

“…The acceptability of sentences with an elliptical possessed NP by speakers who accept PE in the contexts addressed in this article, as well as the possible significance of overt versus elliptical possessed NP in PE sentences require further research. As with the issue of cleft, the examples from Dahlerup (1926), Ravnholt (2006) and the internet (( 12)-( 13)) all have an elided possessed NP, which might suggest that PE sentences with ellipsis are more common.…”

“…(Bostrup 2018), and "Hvems er dens cykel" (KorpusDK). Dahlerup (1926) calls hvems [who's] colloquial or childish, and it might be seen as a variant of the pronoun hvis, where the possessive -s has simply been added to the interrogative pronoun hvem [who] to create a possessive interrogative form instead of using the standard hvis.…”