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Chris Barker

(Dissertations in linguistics)

Center for the Study of Language and Information, c1995

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Bibliography: p. [189]-194

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Originally presented as the author's thesis -- 1991

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Description

What do possessive noun phrases mean? Although possessives are one of the most commonly used construction types cross-linguistically, they have never received detailed or sustained study from a semantic point of view. Taking work of Abney, May, and Heim as a starting point, this book develops a comprehensive analysis of the contribution of possessive NPs to the truth conditions of the sentences in which they occur.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. Syntax of possessives in English
  • 2. Possession relations
  • 3. Logical form for quantificational Possessives
  • 4. Interpreting quantificational possessives
  • Conclusion.

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