Agreeing possessors and the theory of case

I argue that the so-called “possessive adjectives” are not really adjectives, but pronouns (D-projections). Agreement features on possessors do not compete with genitive-marking, as it seems at first sight: they never attach directly to DP, but rather to KP (i.e. to a projection of Case), as shown b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ion Giurgea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-11-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2011_nr-2_Giurgea.pdf