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Project

The syntax of possessors in Flemish variants of Dutch
Code
01J13911
Duration
01 July 2011 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
possessor doubling genitive passive possessive pronoun possessor raising syntax
 
Project description

This project is an investigation of the syntactic properties of the expression of possessor relations in Flemish, both at the level of the noun phrase (as in Jan zijn boek 'John's book', lit. 'Jan his book') and at the level of the sentence (as in Jan is zijn fiets gestolen, 'John's bicycle was stolen', lit. 'Jan was his bicycla stolen'). The focus is on patterns in which the possessor is removed from the possessum.