Code
01J13911
Duration
01 July 2011 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
possessor doubling
genitive
passive
possessive pronoun
possessor raising
syntax
Dutch
Comparative
Surveys
Linguistics
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.