{"id":16560,"date":"2024-10-21T06:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:17:53","slug":"roversi-published-in-nllt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/10\/21\/roversi-published-in-nllt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roversi published in NLLT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that a paper entitled \u00a0&#8221;<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11049-024-09623-7\">Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from \u00c4iwoo<\/a>&#8221; by 5th-year student <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/giovanniroversi.com\">Giovanni Roversi<\/a><\/strong> has just been published in <em>Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. \u00a0<\/em>Congratulations, Giovanni!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>This paper argues that possession is syntactically category-flexible. While it is clear that in many languages possession is mostly grounded in and operates in the nominal extended projection (Szabolcsi 1983; Kayne 1993), I show that this cannot be universal. The empirical part of this article is a case study of \u00c4iwoo, which I argue has an inherently verbal counterpart of English \u0092s, an abstract transitive verb I label POSS. This verb can be used by itself to form clausal possession: \u0091I POSS this boat\u0092 ? \u0091this boat is mine.\u0092 Possessed DPs also contain the verb POSS: the object of this verb is extracted, forming a relative clause. Informally, \u0091my boat\u0092 really is \u0091the boati \u0092 ? \u0091the boat that is mine.\u0092 Given this, \u00c4iwoo simply lacks true nominal possessives. The theoretical consequence is that possession can be mapped onto different syntactic categories in different languages. This is a welcome result, as it makes the syntax-semantics mapping as flexible as it needs to be: if possession is just a tool to assert that a certain relation holds between two entities, nothing in our theory of grammar predicts that such a notion should only be limited to a specific syntactic category.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The paper is open access: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11049-024-09623-7\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11049-024-09623-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that a paper entitled \u00a0&#8221;Possession and syntactic categories: An argument from \u00c4iwoo&#8221; by 5th-year student Giovanni Roversi has just been published in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. \u00a0Congratulations, Giovanni! Here&#8217;s the abstract: This paper argues that possession is syntactically category-flexible. While it is clear that in many languages possession is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16766,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16560\/revisions\/16766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}