Volume 69, Issue 2

Abstract

Abstract

In this study we report a hardly noticed, poorly studied, and non-understood property of kinship terms in many Dutch dialects: a distinct, more impoverished possessor inflection in kinship terms, which was coined “possessor truncation” in Goeman (2008). After reporting dialect-geographical, diachronic, and morphological properties of possessor truncation, we give a morphosyntactic account inspired on determiner drop in kinship terms in Italian. Possessor truncation in Dutch and determiner drop in Italian can be unified under the assumption that kinship terms generate their referential role within in the sub-lexical domain, while ordinary nouns merge these argumental properties in the supra-lexical domain.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.5117/TET2017.2.POST
2017-11-01
2024-03-28
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.5117/TET2017.2.POST
Loading
Keyword(s): chain reduction; distributive morphology; Dutch; inflection; Italian; kinship terms; morphosyntax; possessive pronouns; referential role

Most Cited Most Cited RSS feed