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Barany, Andras and Nikolaeva, Irina (2019) 'Possessors in switch-reference.' Glossa, 48 (1).

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Abstract

Some languages with switch-reference use same-subject markers in structures where the internal possessor of one subject corefers with another subject, but the subjects do not corefer with each other. We analyse such patterns as a type of non-canonical switch-reference (Stirling 1993; de Sousa 2016) and show that languages differ in what types of possessive relations license same-subject marking. Languages that allow alienable possessive relations in switch-reference also allow inalienable relations to license same-subject marking, but not vice versa. In addition, alienable, but not inalienable possessive relations, must be morphosyntactically expressed when licensing same-subject marking. Adopting a modified version of Stirling’s (1993) approach, we derive these implicational relations from anaphoric conditions licensing non-canonical switch-reference.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Non-canonical switch-reference; Internal possession; Relational nouns; Part-whole relations
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics > Department of Linguistics
ISSN: 23971835
Copyright Statement: © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.865
Date Deposited: 03 Jul 2019 08:07
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/31240
Funders: Arts and Humanities Research Council

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