Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish

The aim of this paper is to analyze a type of Spanish (and Romance) complex locative non-directional prepositional expressions taking a genitive complement, like encima/cerca de (“on top/near of”). We will center our attention on an alternation that has gone unnoticed by most theoretical and descrip...

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Autores: Fernández Soriano, Olga Margarita, Ordóñez, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.383
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Palabra clave:axial parts
complex prepositions
datives
genitive/dative alternation
inalienable possession
nominalization
possessives
Filología
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spelling Possessives and spatial expressions in SpanishFernández Soriano, Olga MargaritaOrdóñez, Franciscoaxial partscomplex prepositionsdativesgenitive/dative alternationinalienable possessionnominalizationpossessivesFilologíaThe aim of this paper is to analyze a type of Spanish (and Romance) complex locative non-directional prepositional expressions taking a genitive complement, like encima/cerca de (“on top/near of”). We will center our attention on an alternation that has gone unnoticed by most theoretical and descriptive grammars: this genitive complement may appear as an argument of the main predicate and show dative case (se sentó encima de Juan, “(S)he sat on top of Juan” > se le sentó encima, “Lit. (S)he DAT sat on top”). Most of these complex PPs may correspond to what has been called ‘Axial Parts’ (Svenonius 2006, 2008), but the paradigm extends to other cases. Based on work by Larson and Samiian (2021) on the typology of nominalization in prepositions in Iranian Persian, we show that the common property of these prepositional expressions is that they contain a nominal element: a relational noun or a nominalized preposition. Apart from the dative alternation, one of the properties shown by complex locative prepositions in Spanish is that a stressed postnominal possessive is allowed, which can be masculine or feminine, giving rise to dialectal variation: detrás mío/mía, Lit. “behind mine”, cerca mío/mía, Lit. “near mine”. We will show that what determines the gender of the possessive is the nominalizer and the level of grammaticalization of the nominal headResearch underlying this paper has been partially funded by Project PID2021-123671 of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y UniversidadesUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDepartamento de Filología EspañolaFacultad de Filosofía y Letras20242024-06-11research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/719203https://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.383reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7192032026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
title Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
spellingShingle Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
Fernández Soriano, Olga Margarita
axial parts
complex prepositions
datives
genitive/dative alternation
inalienable possession
nominalization
possessives
Filología
title_short Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
title_full Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
title_fullStr Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
title_sort Possessives and spatial expressions in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fernández Soriano, Olga Margarita
Ordóñez, Francisco
author Fernández Soriano, Olga Margarita
author_facet Fernández Soriano, Olga Margarita
Ordóñez, Francisco
author_role author
author2 Ordóñez, Francisco
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Filología Española
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv axial parts
complex prepositions
datives
genitive/dative alternation
inalienable possession
nominalization
possessives
Filología
topic axial parts
complex prepositions
datives
genitive/dative alternation
inalienable possession
nominalization
possessives
Filología
description The aim of this paper is to analyze a type of Spanish (and Romance) complex locative non-directional prepositional expressions taking a genitive complement, like encima/cerca de (“on top/near of”). We will center our attention on an alternation that has gone unnoticed by most theoretical and descriptive grammars: this genitive complement may appear as an argument of the main predicate and show dative case (se sentó encima de Juan, “(S)he sat on top of Juan” > se le sentó encima, “Lit. (S)he DAT sat on top”). Most of these complex PPs may correspond to what has been called ‘Axial Parts’ (Svenonius 2006, 2008), but the paradigm extends to other cases. Based on work by Larson and Samiian (2021) on the typology of nominalization in prepositions in Iranian Persian, we show that the common property of these prepositional expressions is that they contain a nominal element: a relational noun or a nominalized preposition. Apart from the dative alternation, one of the properties shown by complex locative prepositions in Spanish is that a stressed postnominal possessive is allowed, which can be masculine or feminine, giving rise to dialectal variation: detrás mío/mía, Lit. “behind mine”, cerca mío/mía, Lit. “near mine”. We will show that what determines the gender of the possessive is the nominalizer and the level of grammaticalization of the nominal head
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