Two types of possessive forms in English

Bernstein, Judy B.; Tortora, Christina

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.03.002

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“…The discussion of the Genitive and the Poss analyses of -é was reminiscent of the debate about the status of the Saxon Genitive in English. The Saxon Genitive has also been analysed as the Genitive case on the possessor (Jackendoff 1977;Chomsky 1986) and as a functional head that takes the possessum as its complement (Abney 1987;Kayne 1993Kayne , 1994Zribi-Hertz 1997;den Dikken 1998;Bernstein and Tortora 2005). While consensus has been converging toward the functional head approach for the Saxon Genitive, I hope to have shown that the case approach to Hungarian -é is superior.…”

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The syntax of anaphoric possessives in Hungarian

Dékány

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Starting with the seminal work of Szabolcsi, morphologically unmarked and Dative-marked possessors in Hungarian have been the subject of rich investigation. Anaphoric possessive constructions, however, have remained poorly researched. In these possessives the possessor bears the mysterious -é suffix and the covert possessum is interpreted under identity with an antecedent. This paper presents new evidence in favour of Bartos' (2001) analysis of anaphoric possessives, which holds that -é is the Genitive case. I further argue that anaphoric possessives in Hungarian involve a pro-form rather than deletion of a lexical noun, and this accounts for the restricted modification of the possessum.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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The syntax of anaphoric possessives in Hungarian

Dékány

2015

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…It has been suggested that the so‐called genitive of Modern English is quite generally a reduced his . We do not believe that this is correct overall, and we align ourselves more closely with the approach to genitival ‘s taken in Bernstein & Tortora , which assimilates it to a copula (see Den Dikken , ). But of course it is entirely possible that some surface tokens of ‘s are reduced pronouns.…”

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A Restriction on Recursion

Dikken

Dékány

2018

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Abstract. Universal Grammar places a restriction on self-embedding recursion structures created through External Merge: A phasal category of type a can be embedded in a phasal category of the same type where there is a c-command relation between the heads of the two instances of a only if the two instances of a are separated by a phase head. This restriction (the exact counterpart of the familiar c-command cum phasemate requirement that is imposed on identical copies of a single category under Internal Merge) explains a variety of hitherto poorly understood properties of the noun phrase. The set of elements that are eligible to serve as nondative possessors in Hungarian possessive DPs is shown to fall out from the recursion restriction: all and only those possessors that are not as large as DP can be placed in the caseless possessor position in the immediate c-command domain of the D head of the possessive noun phrase; dative possessors are in the specifier position of the possessive DP, not c-commanded by its D head and hence immune to the recursion restriction. The recursion restriction sheds new light on the syntax of the possessive noun phrase, the nature of possessor drop, and the structure and distribution of demonstratives. The analysis also presents an empirical case for labeling of XP-YP structures via /-feature sharing.

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“…He is brushing his teeth. Bernstein and Tortora (2005) argued that the pronouns in Engish are morphologically complex, consisting of a nominative pronoun (he, you) and the endings -s or -r, which correspond to the copular forms is and are (he's, you're). As such, they are not real possessive markers, but rather, sg./pl.…”

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“…within the MP (Chomsky, 2000(Chomsky, , 2001 agreement relations are said to result from the syntactic operation Agree, which operates on two elements. One of these elements bears Assuming the syntactic structure that projects a FP for possessives as in Bernstein and Tortora (2005), the specifier FP position would be the 'goal' and the head F would be the 'probe'. The probe contains the Φ features in order to establish agreement via operation AGREE.…”

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“…As proposed in current Minimalism, the Φ features should be checked and deleted. Bernstein and Tortora (2005) Basque or English) has also been a recurrent explanation in mixed DPs by Basque/Spanish and Spanish/English bilingual speakers (Ezeizabarrena, 2004;Liceras et al 2005;Liceras et al 2008;Manterola & Ezeizabarrena, 2004;Parafita Couto et al 2015;Spradlin et al 2003). These bilingual speakers establish agreement within the nominal domain, possibly due to either an economical motivation or the influence for Spanish.…”

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The acquisition of gender agreement in L3 English by Basque/Spanish bilinguals

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Mayo²

2011

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PhD Dissertation 2015(c) 2015 AINARA IMAZ AGUIRRE ii Acknowledgments My deepest gratitude goes first to my supervisor, María del Pilar García Mayo, for her support, guidance, encouragement, and especially her confidence in my work from the very beginning. Despite her busy schedule, she always provided insightful comments and exhaustive feedback on drafts of the thesis, papers, conference abstracts, and even e-mail and WhatsApp communications. It was a pleasure to be your student. ¡¡Grazas por todo o que me ensinaches!! I am greatly thankful to the members of the committee and the two international experts Antonio Fábregas (University of Tromsø) and Roumyana Slabakova (University of Southampton), who gratefully accepted to read this work and whose comments, I am sure, will refine the quality of this work.

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Two types of possessive forms in English

Cited by 50 publications

References 19 publications

The syntax of anaphoric possessives in Hungarian

The syntax of anaphoric possessives in Hungarian

A Restriction on Recursion

The acquisition of gender agreement in L3 English by Basque/Spanish bilinguals

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