Multi-dimensional coding for possession constructions: Approach and preliminary results
10h-12h
ISH, salle Ennat Léger
Conférence de :
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker Van Dam, David Inman, Marine Vuillermet(University of Zürich)
dans le cadre DTT : Atelier Morphosyntaxe
Structures of possession can vary along several dimensions: number of distinct classes (alienable, inalienable, non-possessible, and more); the morphosyntactic shape of a possession construction; the morphosyntactic shape of a non-possession construction; and how any of these vary if the possessor is nominal or pronominal. We have developed a schema targeting nominal possession (i.e., when the possessum and possessor are both non-pronominal), and will present our methods for encoding possession classes and strategies, and present some preliminary findings on the approximately 70 languages (mostly from the Americas) we have coded so far.