PERSONENPROMINENZ IN POSSESSIVEN KONSTRUKTIONEN
The preeminence of person in possessive constructions
Author(s): Bogdana Crivăț (Cîrtilă)Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: inalienable possession; discursive inference; lexicalized structures
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the specific characteristics of a Pan-European linguistic strategy in the particular case of possessive expressions of the type lat în umeri (‘broad shouldered’) in Romanian. These lexicalized structures, sometimes even idiomatic, represent a special case of foregrounding person for three reasons: a priori cognitive prominence of human entity is reflected iconically and formally by syntactic and linear forwarding of the nominal group of the possessor, by syntactic and topological “regression” of the name of the possessed object and the metonymic conceptualisation of the whole as a substitute for a part (totum-proparte).
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Lingvistică
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 272-278
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Dutch