Lødrup, Helge: Prominent Internal Possessors and Backward Possessor Raising: Norwegian ryggen på ham 'the back on him'
Norwegian has a possessor with the preposition på 'on' which is used with body part nouns. It shares properties with the dative external possessor of e.g. German and French, but it differs from them in that it can be a part of the noun phrase with the body part noun. I show that the noun phrase-internal possessor should be considered a so-called prominent internal possessor, and propose that it is derived by using possessor raising "backward".
January 24, 2019
January 24, 2019