Tsoulas, George and Woods, Rebecca (2018) Predicative Possessives, Relational Nouns, and Floating Quantifiers. Linguistic Inquiry. ISSN 0024-3892
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Abstract
Green (1971) notes the apparent unacceptability of certain quantificational expressions as possessors of singular head nouns. We provide data from a range of English dialects to show that such constructions are not straightforwardly unacceptable, but there are a number of restrictions on their use. We build on Kayne’s (1993; 1994) analysis of English possessives in conjunction with considerations on floating quantifiers to explain both the types of possessive that are permitted in the relevant dialects and their distribution, which is restricted to predicative position.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
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Depositing User: | Jonathan Cook |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2017 13:18 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 14:16 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/33551 |
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