Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession
Edited by Kersti Börjars, David Denison and Alan K. Scott
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 199] 2013. xii, 341 pp.
Kersti Börjars
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kersti Börjars plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2013 Introduction Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
2013 Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 123–148 | Article
In this paper we investigate one aspect of the factors that govern the choice in expression of possession in English between the possessive ’s (poss-s), and the of-construction (poss-of). We are particularly interested in the categorization of the poss-s as a clitic or an affix. Since the key… read more
2011 From preposition to purposive to infinitival marker: The Pennsylvania German fer…zu construction Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 385–412 | Article
The development from an allative preposition to a purposive marker to an infinitival marker is a common one cross-linguistically. In this paper, we look in some detail at this change in Pennsylvania German. We demonstrate that fer has completed this change in that it now occurs in a full range of… read more
2011 The pre-conditions for suppletion Morphology and its Interfaces, Galani, Alexandra, Glyn Hicks and George Tsoulas (eds.), pp. 239–266 | Article
Suppletion is a phenomenon which is unique to morphology. It represents extreme non-iconicity in the relation between form and function. Here we deal with what we call proper suppletion, i.e. where one paradigm has resulted from the interaction of two previous paradigms. Our aim is to establish… read more
2010 The real distribution of the English “group genitive” Studies in Language 34:3, pp. 532–564 | Article
The English possessive ’s (POSSLS) is widely regarded as a clitic which attaches at the right edge of noun phrases. The so-called “group genitive”, where POSSLS attaches after a postmodifier (the man in the corner’s hat), is crucial to theoretical accounts. We evaluate both theoretical and… read more
2010 Grammaticalization and models of language Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 279–299 | Article
The focus of this paper is the role of theory for the understanding of linguistic change. We argue that ‘formal’ and ‘functional’ should not be seen as two incompatible ways of viewing linguistic data, but as necessary aspects of any linguistic theory. We consider how theories which are formal, but… read more