First, how often is a non-reflexive possessive used to indicate coreference with the subject in Russian imperative sentences? Second, what combination of semantic and pragmatic factors allows its use? Apart from the semantic factors that are well documented in the existing literature (referentiality,...
Since there is no evidence for overt movement of the NP opa 'grandfather' to Spec,NumP and Spec,DP, and the NP occupies—with a few exceptions—the final position in the noun phrase, we assume that these movements take place at LF (indicated by the dotted line). Now consider the ...
Bataille鈥檚 鈥榖iographical鈥details, along with arbitrarily chosen historical occasions, are the murky glass through which Cornille sees resemblances. The connections between Bataille and Breton are ...
such asch,sh,z,andzh. These sibilant sounds throw people for a loop when they come at the end of a word, with many doing linguistic gymnastics trying to avoid the awkward possessive
We propose an account of morpho-syntactic and interpretive properties of possessives, making use of the insights from the comparison of contact systems with prenominal (Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties) and postnominal (Southern Italian dialects) possessives. The final part examines the ...