A note on possessive constructions in Hindi-Urdu

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ID10140173
AuthorsYamuna Kachru (Urbana University, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume6
Issue1
Pages37-45
Publication date1970-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700002346
OpenAlexW2083636570
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

In the existing grammars and pedagogical works on Hindi-Urdu, the category of possessive expressions has mainly been described on the analogy of the possessive in English (Guru, 1952: 434–438; Kellogg, 1938: 101–102; Sharma, 1958: 34–35; Vajpeyi, 1959: 127–133, 159–170, 302–305; Pořizka, 77–78, 149–150, 277).1 In these works, it has been suggested that the genitive postposition ka , the invariable postposition ke , the compound locational postposition ke pas , and the directional postposition ko predicate possession. In Hindi-Urdu, the following types of sentences in English are generally translated by constructions containing one of the above postpositions: John has a son, John has a book, John has a headache. Such an analysis of possessive expressions in Hindi-Urdu is unsatisfactory from the point of view of an overall syntactic description of the language, since it would imply that there are gaps in the system of possessive expressions in Hindi-Urdu, and hence that in a transformational grammar of these languages some possessive phrases at least could not be derived from underlying simple sentences

Analogy · Genitive case · Grammar · Hindi · Linguistics · Noun · Possession (linguistics · Possessive · Predicate (mathematical logic · Urdu · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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