TY - JOUR
T1 - External possession of body-part nouns in Jumjum
T2 - Possessor raising with possessum incorporation
AU - Andersen, Torben
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - In Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, some body-part nouns, and only such nouns, may be externally possessed in transitive and antipassive clauses. In these external possessor constructions, the possessor is either the object of a transitive verb or the demoted patient of an antipassive verb. The externally possessed body-part noun is partly incorporated into the verb, as shown by the following properties: It immediately follows the verb, its tone is determined by the final tone of the verb, it may combine with a nominalized verb in a kind of compound, and it does not exhibit the root-final nasalization that is prevalent in monosyllabic singular nouns in Jumjum, including internally possessed body-part nouns.
AB - In Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, some body-part nouns, and only such nouns, may be externally possessed in transitive and antipassive clauses. In these external possessor constructions, the possessor is either the object of a transitive verb or the demoted patient of an antipassive verb. The externally possessed body-part noun is partly incorporated into the verb, as shown by the following properties: It immediately follows the verb, its tone is determined by the final tone of the verb, it may combine with a nominalized verb in a kind of compound, and it does not exhibit the root-final nasalization that is prevalent in monosyllabic singular nouns in Jumjum, including internally possessed body-part nouns.
KW - external possession; internal possession; body-part nouns; noun incorporation; Jumjum; Western Nilotic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076827283&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/jall-2019-0008
DO - 10.1515/jall-2019-0008
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0167-6164
VL - 40
SP - 171
EP - 203
JO - Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
JF - Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -