Lødrup, Helge: Prominent Internal Possessors and Backward Possessor Raising: Norwegian ryggen på ham `the back on him'
Norwegian has a possessor with the preposition på `on' which is used with body part nouns. It shares properties with the dative external possessor of e.g. German and French, but it differs from them in that it can be a part of the noun phrase with the body part noun. I show that the noun phrase-internal possessor should be considered a so-called prominent internal possessor, and propose that it is derived by using possessor raising "backward".
December 22, 2022 |
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