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Alienability contrasts in grammar and lexicon
Van linden, An
2020
 

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Abstract :
[en] This series of seminars looks into alienability contrasts and – taking grammatical typology as a starting point – fosters interaction with lexical typology and psycholinguistics. While adnominal possession (‘my arm’ vs. ‘my garden’) is a well-researched area of grammar where alienability contrasts show up, the series aims to cast the net wider, and also invites contributions that deal with other alienability phenomena, at any morphosyntactic level of description. For instance, whereas some clause-level phenomena have been attested in Eurasia (e.g. the body part locative construction in English as in Sam kissed Joe on the cheek), the Americas are well-known for the ubiquity of a particular word-level phenomenon, i.e. that of bound nouns, or obligatorily possessed nouns, as opposed to independent or optionally possessed nouns. Also welcome are talks presenting (cross-linguistic comparisons of) inventories of lexical items that are treated as inalienable in grammar. Ultimately, the idea is to better understand to what extent the alienability contrast is universal. Where do individual languages have their “cut-off point” in the lexicon, i.e. to what extent is it culturally determined which items are grammatically treated as inalienably possessed?
Research center :
Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics - ULiège
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Van linden, An  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Linguistique synchronique anglaise
Language :
English
Title :
Alienability contrasts in grammar and lexicon
Publication date :
06 October 2020
Event name :
Seminar in seminar in Morpho-syntax: introductory talk
Event organizer :
Language Description, Typology and Fieldwork (DTT) research team of the DDL (Dynamique du Language) research lab
Event place :
Lyon, France
Event date :
6-10-2020
Audience :
International
Funders :
Collegium de Lyon & LabEx ASLAN – Dynamique Du Langage
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