Constraints in contact: Animacy in English and Afrikaans genitive variation – a cross-linguistic perspective
This paper builds on the observation that the animacy effects we find in English genitive variation are part of a larger cross-linguistic pattern as reflected in possession splits based on animacy (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001, 2002; Stolz et al. 2008), which are an expression of 'harmonic alignment...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-08-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/292 |