Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction* -- Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 The corpora -- 1.2 Old English -- 1.2.1 Split genitives in Old English -- 1.2.1.1 Extraposed material in the genitive case -- 1.2.1.2 Extraposed prepositional phrases -- 1.2.1.3 Extraposed relative clauses -- 1.2.1.4 Summary of split genitives in Old English -- 1.3 The beginnings of the group genitive -- 1.3.1 Changes in Middle English -- 1.3.2 Separated genitives -- 1.4 Split and group genitives in Middle and Early Modern English -- 1.4.1 Split genitives with prepositions -- 1.4.2 Group genitives -- 1.4.3 Marking -- 1.4.3.1 Split genitives -- 1.4.3.2 Group genitives -- 1.4.3.3 Possessive phrases without heads -- 1.4.4 Marking: Summary -- 1.5 Split vs. group -- 1.5.1 Prepositions and thematic roles -- 1.5.2 Complexity of the possessor phrase -- 1.6 Conclusion -- Variation in the form and function of the possessive morpheme in Late Middle and Early Modern English -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The material -- 2.3 Typical use of the possessive construction -- 2.4 Morpho-syntactic structures -- 2.5 Possessor types -- 2.6 The possessive morpheme marker -- 2.7 Placement of the possessive morpheme -- 2.8 Conclusion -- appendices -- appendix a. -- appendix b: sources -- LETTERS -- Letter collections used: -- HISTORY -- SERMONS -- The great regression -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The history of genitive variation in English: an overview -- 3.3 Data -- 3.4 The variable context -- 3.5 Genitive frequencies over time: An overview -- 3.6 Conditioning factors -- 3.6.1 Semantics: Genitive relation -- 3.6.2 Semantics: Possessor animacy -- 3.6.3 Processing: Possessor length and possessum length -- 3.6.5 Information status: Possessor givenness.

3.6.6 Text linguistics: Possessor thematicity -- 3.6.7 Text linguistics: Lexical density -- 3.6.8 Language-internal conditioning factors: Interim summary -- 3.7 Environmental factors: On the impact of changing input frequencies -- 3.7.1 Model fitting and model simplification -- 3.7.2 Model evaluation and model discussion -- 3.7.3 Environmental factors: Interim summary -- 3.8 Changing genitive grammars -- 3.8.1 Model fitting and model simplification -- 3.8.2 Model evaluation and model discussion -- 3.8.3 Changing genitive grammars: Interim summary -- 3.9 Discussion and conclusion -- Nominal categories and the expression of possession -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The broader context -- 4.3 A corpus study of the English possessive alternation -- 4.3.1 What factors drive the alternation? -- 4.3.2 Finding the envelope of variation -- 4.3.3 What should be excluded? -- 4.3.4 How were examples coded? -- 4.3.4.1 Weight -- 4.3.4.2 Animacy -- 4.3.4.3 Discourse status -- 4.3.5 Initial results and a confound -- 4.3.5.1 Initial results -- 4.3.5.2 A conundrum regarding the confound -- 4.3.5.3 Interpreting regression results -- 4.4 The Monolexemic possessor construction -- 4.4.1 The grammaticalization of optimal weight -- 4.4.2 The grammaticalization of optimal discourse status -- 4.4.3 Are animacy tendencies grammaticalized in the MLP? -- 4.4.4 Are the MLP nominal category constraints pragmatically driven? -- 4.4.4.1 Relational common nouns -- 4.4.4.2 Semi-relational common nouns as Possessive Adjectives -- 4.4.4.3 Non-relational common nounsas PAs -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Expression of possession* -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Regression analysis of non-structural factors -- 5.3 Regression analysis of structural factors -- 5.4 Postmodification of the possessor -- 5.4.1 Distribution in our data -- 5.4.2 Previous accounts -- 5.5 Conclusions.

A cognitive analysis of John's hat* -- 6.1 Why a cognitive analysis? -- 6.2 Word Grammar theory -- 6.3 Is John's one word or two? -- 6.4 Where's the determiner? -- 6.5 The morphology of X's possessives -- 6.6 The semantics of X's possessives -- 6.7 The competition: OF -- 6.8 Conclusions -- The oblique genitive in English -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Comparison with other constructions -- 7.2.1 Oblique genitive and subject-determiner genitive -- 7.3 Oblique genitive and of oblique -- 7.4 Oblique genitive and partitive -- 7.5 Usage based analysis: semantic relations -- 7.6 Usage based analysis: determiners -- 7.7 Conclusion -- The marker of the English "Group Genitive" is a special clitic, not an inflection* -- 8.1 The "Group Genitive" -- 8.2 Phrasal properties and their analysis -- 8.2.1 The Group Genitive and its realization -- 8.2.1.1 Special clitics -- 8.2.1.2 Edge inflection -- 8.3 Distinguishing the two approaches to the Group Genitive -- 8.3.1 Clitics vs. affixes in general -- 8.3.2 Phrase marking by special clitics -- 8.3.3 Phrase marking by Edge inflection -- 8.4 Is the English possessive a clitic or an affix? -- 8.4.1 The analysis of (English) pronouns -- 8.5 Some phonology -- 8.5.1 Null realization of the possessive -- 8.5.2 The phonology of /z/ (and /d/) -- 8.5.3 Some problems with proper names -- 8.6 Loose ends -- 8.6.1 [Poss] as a Determiner? -- 8.6.2 The 'Descriptive Genitive' -- 8.7 Conclusions -- Two prenominal possessors in West Flemish* -- 9.1 Introduction: Two prenominal possessors in the Lapscheure dialect -- 9.1.1 Scope of the paper -- 9.1.2 The dialect of Lapscheure -- 9.1.3 The doubling construction -- 9.1.4 The sen construction (Haegeman 2004) -- 9.2 Comparing the WF prenominal possessor constructions: Similarities -- 9.2.1 Constituency -- 9.2.2 Thematic relations and thematic hierarchy.

9.2.3 Properties of the prenominal possessor -- 9.2.3.1 Semantic properties -- 9.2.3.2 Syntactic properties -- 9.2.4 (Mixed) recursion -- 9.2.5 Definiteness of DP determined by definiteness of prenominal possessor -- 9.2.6 Summary -- 9.3 Differences between the sen construction and the doubling construction -- 9.3.1 Agreement -- 9.3.2 Reciprocal possessors -- 9.3.3 Adjacency effects -- 9.3.3.1 Prenominal quantifiers (al- heel) -- 9.3.3.2 Appositives/NRR -- 9.3.3.3 'Remote' possessor -- 9.3.3.4 Ellipsis of head noun of possessor construction -- 9.3.3.5 Deictic markers, discourse particles and possessors -- 9.3.3.5.1 Deictic adverbs -- 9.3.3.5.2 Discourse particles and possessors -- 9.3.4 Summary -- 9.4 Summary -- A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder -- 10.1 Adnominal possession in Swedish and proper-name compounds -- 10.2 Formal properties of PropN-compounds -- 10.2.1 General -- 10.2.2 Structural patterns of proper names in PropN-compounds -- 10 2.3 Recursion -- 10.2.4 Formal properties of PropN-compounds as compared to ComN-compounds and s-possessive NPs -- 10.3 Why do we use compounds? -- 10.4 PropN-compounds as names -- 10.4.1 PropN-compounds as proper and common names -- 10.4.2 PropN-compounds and possessive NPs as proper names -- 10 4.3 Possessive NPs as descriptions vs. PropN-compounds as common names -- 10.5 PropN-compounds as anaphoric devices -- 10.6 PropN-compounds and structural simplification -- 10.6.1 PropN-compounding as form compression -- 10.6.2 PropN-compounding and morpho-syntactic considerations -- 10.7 Concluding remarks and questions for further research -- Anchor 66 -- abbreviations -- Possessive clitics and ezafe in Urdu -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Grammar architecture assumed -- 11.3 Urdu: Agreement and case system -- 11.4 The genitive case marker -- 11.4.1 Function and use of the genitive -- 11.4.2 Morphosyntactic properties.

11.4.3 Syntactic distribution -- 11.4.4 Analysis of the genitive case clitic -- 11.5 The Ezafe construction -- 11.5.1 Persian Ezafe - morphology or syntax? -- 11.5.2 Urdu Ezafe -- 11.5.2.1 Basic properties -- 11.5.2.2 Headedness/alignment of the Ezafe -- 11.5.2.3 Separability -- 11.5.2.4 Semantics -- 11.5.2.5 Urdu Ezafe - clitic or phrasal affix? -- 11.6 A modular analysis of Urdu Ezafe -- 11.6.1 The morphological component -- 11.6.2 C- and F-structure analysis -- 11.6.3 Prosody -- 11.7 Conclusion -- References -- Index.