Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir. / Ovsjannikova, M.A.; Say, S.S.
In: Studies in Language Companion Series, Vol. 164, 2014, p. 175-202.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Between predicative and attributive possession in Bashkir
AU - Ovsjannikova, M.A.
AU - Say, S.S.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Bashkir employs the genitive strategy for predicative possessive construction (‘he has a car’ literally is ‘his car exists’). However, in predicative possessive constructions the genitival possessor shows syntactic properties that are mostly indicative of its clause-level status. Some other uses with genitival possessors (as in e.g. ‘his leg hurts’) show mixed behaviour with respect to various constituency-related tests. The distribution of these properties directly reflects the degree of the relevance of the possessor. This semantics-to-syntax link is reminiscent of the external vs. internal possessor contrasts in other languages, although normally these contrasts are also manifested morphologically. The fact that constituency tests do not converge on identical results calls into question the applicability of the traditional notion of constituency to Bashkir possessive constructions.
AB - Bashkir employs the genitive strategy for predicative possessive construction (‘he has a car’ literally is ‘his car exists’). However, in predicative possessive constructions the genitival possessor shows syntactic properties that are mostly indicative of its clause-level status. Some other uses with genitival possessors (as in e.g. ‘his leg hurts’) show mixed behaviour with respect to various constituency-related tests. The distribution of these properties directly reflects the degree of the relevance of the possessor. This semantics-to-syntax link is reminiscent of the external vs. internal possessor contrasts in other languages, although normally these contrasts are also manifested morphologically. The fact that constituency tests do not converge on identical results calls into question the applicability of the traditional notion of constituency to Bashkir possessive constructions.
KW - Bashkir
KW - Turkic
KW - noun phrase
KW - possessive constructions
KW - constituency
KW - external possessor
KW - word order
KW - genitive
M3 - Article
VL - 164
SP - 175
EP - 202
JO - Studies in Language Companion Series
JF - Studies in Language Companion Series
SN - 0165-7763
ER -
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