Cover
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
I. The Basic Phenomena
1. Overview
2. Our proposal
3. The organization of the book
2.1 Mainstream Generative Grammar assumptions
2.2 Construction-theoretic assumptions
3. The core-periphery distinction
4. The role of morphology
5. The approach adopted in this book
5.1 Feature structures
5.2 Morphological constructions
5.3 Syntactic constructions
6. Conclusions
2. Possessive Relatives in typological perspective
2.1 The typology of relative clauses and subject marking
2.2 Possessive Relatives as a subtype of prenominal relatives
2.3 pnms in Possessive Relatives
3.1 Locality
3.2 Agreement and pronominal incorporation
4. Conclusions
II. Tundra Nenets
1. Introduction
2. Overview of Tundra Nenets grammar
2.1 Basics of Tundra Nenets phonology
2.2 Typological profile
2.3 Nominal inflectional categories
2.4 Verbal inflectional categories
3.1 Participial strategy: relativization of subj, obj and poss-or
3.2 Non-participal strategy: relativization of obliques
4.1 Two types of non-finite structures
4.2 Clausality
4.3 subj in non-finite clauses
4.4 Possessive Relatives as clauses
4.5 Desideratum 1
5. The possessive construction
5.1 Person/number marking
5.2 Case marking of the possessor/subject
5.3 Discourse-marked lexical possessor/subject
5.4 The exponence of person/number and case marking
5.5 Desiderata 2 and 3
6.1 Nominal and adjectival modifiers
6.2 Concord
6.3 Possessive Relatives as adjectival modifiers
6.4 Desideratum 4
7. Conclusions
1. Introduction
2. Possessed Noun construction
2.1 On the semantics of possessives
2.2 Associative possessives in Tundra Nenets
2.3 Possessed Noun as a morphological construction
2.4 Possessed Nouns in syntactic Possessive constructions
3. Inflectable Non-Finite construction
3.1 Non-finites as morphological constructions
3.2 Inflectable non-finites in mc-inflected relatives
3.3 Inflectable non-finites in Possessive Relatives
4. Non-Finite Clause phrasal construction
4.1 Phrasal representation of non-finite clauses
4.2 Relative clauses as syntactic phrases
4.3 The status of pnms
5.1 Adjectival modifiers
5.2 The role of non-finite modifiers in Possessive Relatives
5.3 The syntactic Possessive Relative construction
6. Embedding within relative clauses
7. Conclusions
III. Diversity of Possessive Relatives
2. Conflicting demands on function
3. Deverbal nominals as modifiers
4. Postpositions as modifiers
5. Intra-language variations and the role of analogy
6. Conclusions
1. Introduction
2. Prenominal Possessive Relatives
2.1.1 Possessive constructions
2.1.2 Relative clauses
2.2 Turkic
2.2.1 Possessive constructions
2.2.2 Relative clauses
2.3 Tungusic
2.3.1 Possessive constructions
2.3.2 Relative clauses
2.4.1 Possessive constructions
2.4.2 Relative clauses
2.5 Armenian
2.5.1 Possessive constructions
2.5.2 Relative clauses
2.6 Yukaghir
2.6.1 Possessive constructions
2.6.2 Relative clauses
3. Postnominal Possessive Relatives
4. Possessive Relatives vs. mc-inflected relatives
5.1 mc-inflected relatives
5.2 Possessive Relatives
6. Conclusions
1. Introduction
2.1 The proposal
2.2 The position of determiners
2.3 Constituency
3. The Kaynean analysis
3.1 The proposal
3.2 The morphological status of pnms
3.3 Morphotactics
4. The 'reduced CP' analysis
4.1 The proposal
4.2 Typological variations
4.3 Possessors and subjects
5. Approaching cross-linguistic variation
6. Conclusions
9. Summary of our results
References
Index
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