NP-anaphora and focused possessors in parallel architecture

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ID10292138
AuthorsJila Ghomeshi (0000-0002-2322-4184, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume44
Issue4
Publication date2006-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2006.023
OpenAlexW1975298584
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

The Persian counterparts to English noun phrases like John's and mine involve the anaphoric element mal (lit. ‘property’). This element can form a possessive construction in combination with common noun phrases, proper names, or pronouns but can never co-occur with the otherwise ubiquitous pronominal enclitics in its anaphoric function. In this article an account of this co-occurrence restriction is given in terms of information structure. Specifically, mal , as an anaphoric element, is argued to be “topical” while its possessor constitutes the focus of the larger possessive construction. The non-occurrence of the pronominal enclitics with mal is proposed to be the consequence of a broader constraint that prohibits these elements from occurring in focused positions. The article presents a lexical entry for mal capturing its syntactic and semantic properties within the parallel architecture framework of Jackendoff (1997, 2002)

Anaphora (linguistics) · Element (criminal law) · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Possessive · Specifier · Architecture · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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