Possessor raising through thematic positions

2010 ◽  
pp. 119-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cilene Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Possessor Raising

Possessor Raising in Nuu-chah-nulth

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Ravinski
Keyword(s):  
Main Clause ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Object Position ◽  
Possessor Raising ◽  
Subject Agreement ◽  
Minimal Link Condition ◽  
Syntactic Dependency

AbstractNuu-chah-nulth possessor raising is semantically unrestricted and affects only subjects: subject agreement matches the person and number of the possessor (rather than the possessed subject), and the possessive-marking clitic attaches to the head of the clause (rather than to the possessum). Nuu-chah-nulth possessor raising is analyzed as a syntactic dependency between the possessive clitic in the main clause and the base-generated possessor position within DP. A Possessive Phrase can appear in either the DP or the clausal domain, and the possessive clitic may be generated in either position. When the possessive clitic is generated in the main clause, a possessor may raise out of subject position via feature-driven movement; the Minimal Link Condition prevents such movement from occurring out of object position.

scholarly journals The Syntactic Status of Object Possessor Raising in Western Muskogean

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Munro
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Possessor Raising ◽  
Syntactic Status

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 634-649

Covert possessor raising in Japanese

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideki Kishimoto
Keyword(s):  
Possessor Raising

scholarly journals On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili

1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Camillia N. Keach ◽  
Michael Rochemont
Keyword(s):  
Central Question ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Possessor Raising ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
Explicit Grammar ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Government Binding

Traditionally Possessor Raising (PR) in Swahili is included with a variety of sentence types as an instance of the Nominal Construction and more recently defended as a member of that class. This study has two major goals: fIrst, it demonstrates that PR has syntactic distributional patterns which argue against its inclusion in the Nominal Construction. Secondly, it addresses a central question: what features of an explicit grammar explain the syntactic properties associated with PR? After showing that the inferentially based proposals in Hinnebusch and Kirsner [1980] and in Scotton [1981] do not adequately characterize PR nor accommodate its syntax, semantics or interpretation, we present a Government Binding treatment ofPR's syntax. Finally, we provide a summary of our cross-linguistic research on PR's interpretation.

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