Prominent Internal Possessors as a challenge to the theory of agreement
Gastvortrag von Frau Irina Nikolaeva, PhD (SOAS, University of London)
31.05.2017
11:45 - 13:15
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
[0033030211] Seminarraum SR 33.3.211, Merangasse 70, 3.Obergeschoß, Merangasse 70
The talk will introduce possessive constructions in which internal possessors have a greater deal of syntactic prominence than typically encountered. Contrary to the usual assumptions about grammatical agreement, the possessor controls agreement features on the verb. Various syntactic analyses proposed for a number of typologically diverse languages and their implications for syntactic theory will be discussed.