Prenominal possessives with indefinites in Romance
Eguren, Luis (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Roca, Francesc 1945- (Universitat de Girona)

Date:	2025
Abstract:	This paper describes and compares the properties of prenominal possessives in indefinite DPs in three Romance varieties: Standard Italian (SI), Girona Catalan (GC), and a so-called "conservative dialect" of European Portuguese (CEP). It is first shown that prenominal possessives with indefinites in both GC and CEP evaluate the possession relation, indicating that there is a close relation between the possessor and the possessum, whereas prenominal possessives in the SI [Indefinite+Poss+N] construction are (non-evaluative) unmarked possessives. It is also argued that prenominal possessives with indefinites in GC and CEP have the syntactic and semantic properties of strong forms (in Cardinaletti 1998's sense), while prenominal possessives following an indefinite determiner in SI are weak forms. A formal analysis of prenominal possessives with indefinites in the Romance varieties under study which accounts for their particular properties in structural terms is further provided.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2021-123617NB-C42/44 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2021/SGR-00483
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	European portuguese ; Evaluative possessives ; Girona catalan ; Non-evaluative possessives ; Prenominal possessives ; Standard italian ; Strong possessives ; Weak possessives
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 11 Núm. 7 (2025) , p. 1-26 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v11-n7-eguren-roca
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.557

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