Prominent Internal Possessors
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 30328
- Type
- B - Edited book
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10.1093/oso/9780198812142.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198812142
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- All these chapters reflect the research process and research insights primarily initiated by Professor Nikolaeva. Nikolaeva made the original empirical observation underlying the edited volume, namely that many, unrelated languages have similar possessive constructions in which the possessor is inside the possessive phrase but shows syntactic behaviour as if it were outside the possessive phrase (“prominent internal possessors”). Nikolaeva was the PI on an eponymous AHRC-funded project addressing this question. As part of this project, she led the development of a questionnaire probing the properties of such possessive constructions for linguists to use in fieldwork. The novel questions posed by the project and the questionnaire underlie the language-specific chapters in the volume and therefore reflect part of the research process for the whole volume. For chapters 2 (on Maithili) and 8 (on Tundra Nenets), Nikolaeva also undertook primary data collection through elicitation and fieldwork and she contributed to the analysis in both chapters. Bárány contributed to the development of the analysis of the Tundra Nenets data in Chapter 8.
Chapter 1, with Nikolaeva and Bárány as co-authors, presents some of the general findings and discoveries of the research project. The chapter provides a typology of prominent internal possessors in more than 50 languages from all over the world and describes the syntactic and semantic phenomena they exhibit, primarily agreement and switch-reference. This chapter both describes the relevant data and highlights the challenges that these data pose for existing theories of syntax. Nikolaeva and Bárány both contributed data collection, literature review, and analysis to this chapter.
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