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Predicative Possessive Constructions in Hindi

Lucrezia Carnesale    Università di Pavia; Università degli Studi Bergamo, Italia    

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abstract

Hindi has more than one construction for the encoding of possessive relationships: in particular, this language lacks a nominative‑accusative construction and a ‘have’‑verb, and instead encodes possession through intransitive sentences with the Possessor in an oblique case (mainly locative or genitive). This paper describes and analyses the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of Hindi predicative possessive constructions. It shows that each possessive construction in Hindi is customised to encode particular semantic properties, and that the high iconicity of this language accounts for its lack of a nominative‑accusative construction for the expression of possession.

Published
April 29, 2022
Accepted
March 2, 2022
Submitted
Dec. 10, 2021
Language
EN

Keywords: Genitive constructions • Locative constructions • Hindi • Iconicity • Predicative possession

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/8409-3769/2022/01/009

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