UID:
almahu_9948109069302882
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191850103 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument - like behaviour of internal possessors. In some languages, adnominal possessors - or a subset thereof - figure more prominently than expected in the phrase-external syntax, by controlling predicate agreement and/or acting as a switch-reference pivot in same-subject relations. There is no independent evidence that such possessors are external to the possessive phrase or that they assume head status within it. This creates a puzzle for virtually all syntactic theories, as it is generally believed that agreement and switch-reference target phrasal heads rather than dependents.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198812142
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
