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In:Advances in the Syntax of DPs: Structure, agreement, and case
Edited by Anna Bondaruk, Gréte Dalmi and Alexander Grosu
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 217] 2014
► pp. 193–219

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Possessives within and beyond NP

Two ezafe- constructions in Tatar

Published online: 14 October 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.217.08per
The paper considers possessives in two ezafe -constructions in Tatar, a language without articles. More specifically, possessives in the so-called ezafe -2 and ezafe -3 constructions are distinguished formally by the presence of the genitive case on the possessive and the agreeing form of the possessive marker on the head in ezafe -3, but not in ezafe -2. The two types of possessors appear in distinct structural positions in the elaborate structure of a noun phrase, though neither of them remains inside NP. The two types of possessives themselves are of different size: the possessive in ezafe -3 is a full-fledged DP, but the possessive in ezafe -2 is a Small Nominal (Pereltsvaig 2006).
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