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Reconsidering inalienable possession with definite determiners in French
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In many Romance and Germanic languages, definite determiners can indicate possession for a subset of nouns that have often been called nouns of 'inalienable' possession. This paper addresses the question of why and how the definite determiner contributes to the interpretation of 'inalienable possession'. Following Freeze (1992) and others, I argue that 'inalienable possession' cannot be properly characterized as inalienable and does not involve possession. Relevant 'inalienably possessed' nouns are not restricted to body parts, but include a broader set of nouns that are commonly expected to be located in or on the possessor: mental or physical faculties, facial expressions, as well as articles of clothing, protection, and adornment. I argue that the relevant cases are best captured in terms of an analysis that combines a syntactic configuration for locative prepositions (RP in den Dikken's 2006 sense) with the semantics of weak definites for the 'inalienable' use of the definite determiner. All observed restrictions derive from the requirement that the semantic properties of weak definites and the syntactic configuration of the RP need to be compositionally respected. Finally, I propose some ideas about how this analysis can be extended to crosslinguistic variation in German and English.
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Dative; Evidentiality; Inalienable; Inferential; Possession; Weak definite
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URL: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/258317
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Puzzles of Identity: Binding at the Interface
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Modality and Possession in NPs
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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The Self as Other: A Minimalist approach to zich and zichzelf in Dutch
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In: North East Linguistics Society (2020)
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Object Representations and Their Relation to Negative Shapes : Implications for Numerical Cognition and its Apparent Evolution
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In: CogEvo, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02424894 ; CogEvo, Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution, Jul 2019, Rovereto, Italy ; https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/ (2019)
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Thank you to reviewers (2015-2018)
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 3, No 1 (2018); 44 ; 2397-1835 (2018)
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Mundurucu terms with arithmetical, geometrical and spatial content
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01498325 ; 2017 (2017)
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Mundurucu Number Words as a Window on Short-Term Memory
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In: The origins of numerical abilities: the future ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01497577 ; The origins of numerical abilities: the future, Feb 2017, Chicheley Hall, United Kingdom. 2017 ; https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/02/numerical-abilities-future/ (2017)
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Perspectives on Binding and Atomism
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In: Atomism and Binding ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01495506 ; Atomism and Binding, 1, Foris Publication, 2017, Atomism and Binding, 906765535X (2017)
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Introducing Glossa
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 1, No 1 (2016); 1 ; 2397-1835 (2016)
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Fair Open Access: A Roadmap
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In: UNT Open Access Symposium, Denton, TX. May 19-20, 2016. (2016)
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From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap
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In: UNT Open Access Symposium, May 19-20, 2016. Denton, TX. (2016)
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