This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive crosslinguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clauselevel argumentlike behavior of internal possessors. In some languages, adnominal possessors or a subset thereof figure more prominently than expected in the phraseexternal syntax, by controlling predicate agreement and/or acting as a switchreference pivot in samesubject relations. There is no independent evidence that such possessors are external to the possessive phrase or that they assume head status within it. This creates a puzzle for virtually all syntactic theories, as it is generally believed that agreement and switchreference target phrasal heads rather than dependents. Following an introduction to the typology of the phenomenon and an overview of possible syntactic analyses, chapters in the volume offer more focused case studies from a wide range of languages spoken in the Americas, Eurasia, South Asia, and Australia. The contributions are largely based on novel data collected by the authors and present thorough discussions of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of prominent internal possessors in the relevant languages. The volume will be of interest to researchers and students from graduate level upwards in the fields of comparative linguistics, syntax, typology, and semantics.

Binding: Hardcover;304 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: CFF; Weight: 696 g; Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 22

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