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Dealing with relevant possessors

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One of the basics of current discussions of possessives is the opposition between adnominal “internal possession” (IP) and clause level “external possession” (EP) constructions, which are distinguished according to whether the possessor (PR) and the possessum (PM) form a single nominal constituent (IP) or not (EP). In general, the semantic and pragmatic raison d’etre of this opposition can be formulated in terms of the relevance of a PR (cf. Shibatani 1994; Iordanskaja and Mel’cuk 1995). While in IP constructions (e.g., (1)) the PR is unmarked in respect to its relevance to the information described in an utterance, in EP constructions (such as (2) or (3)) the PR is necessarily relevant.

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