The roots and structures of possessive noun classes
Armstrong, Grant (University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA))

Data:	2024
Resum:	In both the typological literature and literature on formal syntax and semantics, a division is drawn between nouns that are inalienably possessed such as body parts and kinship terms and nouns that are alienably possessed such as owned materials. In this paper I re-examine data from Spanish and Mayan languages and propose an analysis of it that emphasizes two important points regarding the roots and structures associated with inalienable and alienable possession. I first make the novel observation that various types of external possession in Spanish provide clear support for the idea that inalienable possession is structurally less complex than alienable possession: inalienable possessive relations are introduced within a complex n head that consists of a root and nominalizing head. I then explore attributive possession in Mayan languages and highlight data that leads to conflicting conclusions about where, precisely, inalienable relations such as part-of and kin-of are encoded: on n heads or on roots. I outline avenues for future research with the Mayan language family that may help elucidate which of these two analyses may ultimately be correct.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	(in)alienable possession ; Roots ; Distributed Morphology ; Mayan ; Spanish
Publicat a:	Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 6 (2024) , p. 1-33 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n6-armstrong
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v10-n6-armstrong
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.461

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