By Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze
ISBN-10: 902720568X
ISBN-13: 9789027205681
ISBN-10: 9027290369
ISBN-13: 9789027290366
This ebook is a functional-typological research of ownership splits in ecu languages. It exhibits that genetically and structurally varied languages comparable to Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese exhibit possessive structures that are delicate to semantically dependent differences corresponding to the alienability correlation. those differences are grammatically suitable in lots of ecu languages simply because they require committed buildings. What makes those cut up possessive platforms attention-grabbing for the linguist is the interplay of semantic standards with pragmatics and syntax. Neutralisation of differences happens lower than concentration. an identical occurs if one of many elements of a possessive development is syntactically heavy.These results will be saw within the majority of the 50 pattern languages. Possessive splits are powerful in these languages that are outdoors the normal commonplace ecu team. the majority of the eu languages don't behave a lot in a different way from these non-European languages for which ownership splits are suggested. The e-book finds attention-grabbing new proof approximately eu languages and ownership to typologists, universals researchers, and areal linguists.
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For Montagnais, Martin (1991: 84) wonders why certain possessees which are neither kinship Split possession: An areal-linguistic study in the languages of Europe terms nor body-part terms require the additional relator morpheme whereas others do not: nI-mokÁman ‘my knife’ vs. nI-matIh-Im ‘my lighter’. Apart from the observation that all French loan nouns and nominalised relative clauses with ka- require the presence of -im when possessed (ka kocit ‘submarine [lit. that which dives]’ → nI-ka koci-m ‘my submarine’ [Martin 1991: 70]), whereas deverbal nominalisations usually lack this additional morpheme (nI-pwam-on ‘my dream [lit.
If it were not for the formal three-way distinctions in Icelandic, one could easily be induced to take the Italian and Hungarian solution for granted: both languages treat inanimate and animate possessees similarly and thus fail to suggest that animacy is a crucial criterion in possession at all. The method of distributional profile comparison cannot only be employed in cross-linguistics, but it may also be fruitfully applied to language-internal phenomena. , there is a potentially rich system of sub-categories of possession.
According to Gerzenstein (1994: 156), domestic animals and plants do not behave like other alienable possessees because they require the presence of a possessive classifier (Aikhenvald 2000: 125–148)-Rinwhich hosts the possessor affixes. 1--- ‘my dogs’ dog- Chapter 3. 14 (A26) Possessee classes in Montagnais and Maká Montagnais II III kin/body-part culturally salient items/ deverbal nominalisations rest kin I kin II/body-parts domestic animals/plants rest I II III IV I Maká The outcome of the comparison of the two Amerindian languages shows that their categorial distinctions map onto each other in a peculiar way.
Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe (Studies in Language Companion Series) by Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze
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