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Taylor, John R. 1994. Possessives and topicality. Functions of Language 1 (1) : 67–94.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammaticality predicition | nominal construction | possessive construction | pronoun | topicality

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This paper argues that the distribution of topicality within English prenominal possessives, provides a unified explication of various grammaticality judgments.