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Genitive Clitics and Nominal Infl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Enrique Mallén*
Affiliation:
University of Florida

Extract

This paper offers an account of the different behaviour of prenorninal constituents such as his and su in the examples in (1) which are associated with one of the thematic roles assigned by the nouns picture and foto respectively. I argue that the prenominal element su is base-generated as a clitic adjoined to a nominal head in Spanish, whereas his in English attains its prenominal position via NP-movement to a nominal specifier.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1990

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