The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary

Young, Robert W.; Morgan, W. T. W.

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“…Thus, to what extent the meaning of possession is really "inherent" in kinship and body-part term is still open to discussion. 16 In a few languages, nouns with antipossessive markers can take possessive indexes in addition, resulting in a semantic contrast, as reported for Navajo by Young and Morgan (1987: 3) and cited by Nichols and Bickel (2005a: 238): bi-be' 'her milk (from her own breasts)', 'a-be' 'something's milk', be-'a-be' 'her (store-bought) milk'. For the contrast between bi-be' and be-'a-be' one could invoke Haiman's iconicity of distance, because there is a formal distance in the second form that can be seen as corresponding to a semantic distance.…”

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Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Haspelmath

2017

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft

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This paper argues that alienability contrasts in adnominal possessive constructions should not be explained by iconicity of distance, but by predictability due to the higher relative frequency of possessed occurrences of inalienable nouns. While it is true that when there is an alienability split, the alienable construction typically has an additional marker which often separates the possessor from the possessed noun, the broader generalization is that additional marking is found when the possessive relationship is less predictable. This generalization also extends to cases of antipossessive marking and impossessibility. The diachronic mechanisms responsible for the development of alienability contrasts are differential reduction and differential inhibition of a new construction.

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Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Haspelmath

2017

Zeitschrift Für Sprachwissenschaft

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“…I will assume here that the PP is type d,t which means we have a predicational copula, 1 type d,t,d,t. Young and Morgan (1987) use paraphrase to give a sense of the meaning of comparatives like those in (12). Their paraphrase for (12) would be "My little sister is pretty, being beyond me" which nicely captures both the predicative nature of the bracketed phrase and its adjunct status.…”

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Degrees and segments

Schwarzschild

2013

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I make two related proposals, one about directed scale segments and the other about the nature of degrees. Bale (2007Bale ( , 2011 argued that degrees should be analyzed as sets of individuals and that degree arguments are created in the syntax from relational predicates. Schwarz (2010) showed that Bale's construction runs into problems when the relational predicate is complex, consisting of an LF constituent that contains more than just a gradable adjective. I modify Bale's proposal so that it overcomes Schwarz's objection. But first I propose a semantics for comparatives based on quantification over directed scale segments, triples consisting of two degrees and a measure function. The modification of Bale's proposal depends upon this. Segments are of independent interest as they permit a conjunctive semantics for extended adjectival phrases, the way events do for verb phrases. Potential benefits of 'degree-conjunctivism' are explored.

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“…Further, based on the fact that postpositions display agreement which is identical with possessor agreement on nouns (Young and Morgan 1987), Watanabe (1993:434) maintains that the lexical category P must be a locational noun in origin. He claims that Mayan provides further evidence that there are Ps that are of lexical category origin.…”

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The layered internal structure and the external syntax of PP

Ayano¹

2005

Journal of Japanese Linguistics

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The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary

Cited by 46 publications

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Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Degrees and segments

The layered internal structure and the external syntax of PP

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