کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10461200 923980 2005 22 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Two types of possessive forms in English
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Two types of possessive forms in English
چکیده انگلیسی
In this paper we distinguish between the two instances of word-final -s characterizing English possessive forms: (i) the pronominal final -s of his̄ and (ii) the full-DP final -s of Mary's̄. We argue that the pronouns 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's̄, you're). As such, they are not real possessive markers, but rather, sg./pl. copulas, which together with the nominative pronoun yield a possessive pronominal form (his̄, your̄). We adopt the idea that the agreement between pronoun and copula is triggered in a spec-head configuration in a DP-internal agreement projection [E. Ritter, Nat. Lang. Linguist. Theory 13 (1995) 405; R.-M. Déchaine, M. Wiltschko, Linguist. Inq. 33.3 (2002) 409]. We further argue, in line with Kayne [Stud. Linguist. 47.1 (1993) 3] (and in contrast with den Dikken [M. den Dikken, (Anti-)agreement in DP, in: R. van Bezooijen, R. Kager (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1998, p. 95; On the structural representation of possession and agreement: the case of (anti-)agreement in Hungarian possessed nominal phrases, in: I. Kenesi (Ed.), Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the Theory of Central and Eastern European Languages, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1999, p. 137], that the -s of Mary's̄book and a book of Mary's̄ is not a copula, but rather a (singular) number marker akin to that found in the verbal domain (sheeats̄). Plural possessive DPs (the kids' mother), according to our analysis, are plural DPs (the kids) further marked with a null plural number morpheme 'ø' (the kids'ømother). We claim that this is the same as the (null) plural morpheme found in the verbal domain (she eats̄vs. they eatø).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Lingua - Volume 115, Issue 9, September 2005, Pages 1221-1242
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