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The Syntax of Null Possessors with Kinship Terms and Body Part Nouns in Vietnamese

Andrew Simpson and
Linh Pham

Languages2025, 10(7), 158;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10070158

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27 June 2025

Bare nouns representing kinship terms (KNs) and body parts (BPNs) can be assumed to project a null possessor argument, which allows for the interpretation of such nouns relative to other linguistically present NPs. In Vietnamese, the distribution of...

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Middle-Passive Constructions, Dative Possessors, and Word Order in Spanish

Imanol Suárez-Palma

Languages2024, 9(1), 15;https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9010015

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27 December 2023

This paper examines data from Spanish middle-passive sentences whose grammatical subject contains a body-part noun, externally possessed by means of a dative possessor. I advocate for an analysis whereby the possessor originates inside the theme DP a...

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