Building and interpreting possession sentences

Building and interpreting possession sentences / Neil Myler.

A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myler, Neil (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Semantics, Comparative.
English language > Sentences.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Possessives.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
English language > Sentences
Grammar, Comparative and general > Possessives
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Semantics, Comparative
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Domain of Inquiry; 1.2 The Architecture of the Grammar; 1.3 Consequences and Major Claims; 1.4 Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences: The Solution in a Nutshell; 1.5 Excursus: Why John is a doctor = John has a doctor; 1.6 Structure of this Book; 2 Previous Approaches to Predicative Possession: A Guide for the Perplexed; 2.1 The Scale of the Puzzles: Typological Work; 2.2 The Too-Many-(Surface)-Structures Puzzle: The Freeze/Kayne Tradition; 2.3 Extensions and Reactions to the Freeze/Kayne Tradition.
  • 2.4 Approaches to the Too-Many-Meanings Puzzle2.5 Chapter Conclusion: Approaching Predicative Possession; 3 The Micro-Comparative Syntax of Possession in Quechua; 3.1 Outline of the Chapter; 3.2 Background on Quechua and a Word on the Data; 3.3 Possession Sentences, Movement, and UTAH; 3.4 be-appl in Cochabamba vs. Santiago del Estero Quechua; 3.5 To have and to hold Across the Quechua Family; 3.6 Conclusions; 4 Building and Interpreting HAVE Sentences; 4.1 The Syntax and Semantics of Have; 4.2 A Loose End: Modal Have; 4.3 A Language with Two haves: Icelandic; 4.4 Conclusions.
  • 5 Consequences and Comparisons5.1 Comparing the Approaches; 5.2 Problems for the Freeze/Kayne Approach; 5.3 Crucial Predictive Differences; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Extending the Typology I: Predicativization; 6.1 Introducing -yoq; 6.2 -yoq-Marked Phrases Are Nominal (for at Least Some Speakers); 6.3 Against Decompositional Approaches to -yoq; 6.4 -yoq and the Semantics of Predicativization; 6.5 The Comparative Syntax of Predicativization; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Extending the Typology II: The with-Possessive; 7.1 Re-introducing with-Possessives; 7.2 Levinson's (2011) Approach.
  • 7.3 with-Possessives in Icelandic and Bantu7.4 Conclusion: Syntax and Semantics in with-Possessives; 8 Conclusions and Prospects; 8.1 Summary of the Proposal and Arguments; 8.2 Areas for Extension; 8.3 General Conclusion; Appendix: Existential be-based Possession Constructionsin the System of Francez (2009); Bibliography; Index.

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