Contrastive Observations on Possessive and Pseudo-possessive Constructions in Spanish and Italian
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https://doi.org/10.18485/beoiber.2017.1.1.1Abstract
Linguistic possession has been studied in various ways from all linguistic viewpoints, from the pioneering works of Lévy-Bruhl (1914) to those in generative grammar by Velázquez (1996), in linguistic typology by Hagège (1978) and Koptjevskaja-Tamm (2002) or in cognitive grammar by Nikiforidou (1991), Heine (1997) and Pamies (2001; 2004). However, many doubts remain on that question. There is a surprisingly high cross-linguistic variation in the relation between meaning (the concept of possession) and grammatical forms (possessive and genitive constructions, prepositions, possession verbs, etc.), even within the same historical family, and there are frequent contradictions which could be explained in a simple way by applying the concept of grammatical metaphor (Halliday 1985) and taking into account contextual issues.Key words: possession, possessive constructions, dative constructions, contrastive grammar, grammatical metaphor.References
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Clark, Eve V. «Locationals: existencial, locative and possessive constructions». J. Greenberg et al (eds.), Universals of Human Language, V. 4, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978: 85‒126. Print.
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Derewianka, Beverley. «Grammatical metaphor in the transition to adolescence». A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen et al. (eds.), Grammatical metaphor, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003: 185‒220. Print.
Fernández Ramírez, Salvador. «Gramática española. Los sonidos, el nombre y el pronombre». Revista de Occidente (1951). Impreso.
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Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. Print.
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Ledgeway, Adam. Grammatica diacronica del napoletano. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2009. Stampato.
Lenarduzzi, René. Estudios contrastivos español-italiano (artículos, posesivos, demostrativos), Udine: Gianfranco Angelico Benvenuto (Collana Glossai, Vol. 3), 1990. Impreso.
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien. «L’expression de la possession dans les langues mélanésiennes». Mémoires de la Société Linguistique de Paris, XIX, 2 (1914): 96‒104. Imprimé.
Lyons, John. «Remarques sur les phrases possessives, existentielles et locatives». Langages, 34 (1974): 47‒53. Imprimé.
Matte Bon, Francisco. Gramática comunicativa del español, (Tomo I). Madrid: Edelsa, 1995. Impreso.
Navarro, Carmen. Aspectos de fraseología contrastiva. Verona: Fiorini, 2008. Impreso.
Nikiforidou, Kiki. «The meanings of the genitive: a case study in semantic structure and semantic change». Cognitive Linguistics, 2 (1991): 149‒205. Print.
Pamies, Antonio. «Sémantique grammaticale de la possession dans les langues d'Europe». E. Castagne (ed.), Modélisation de l'apprentissage simultané de plusieurs langues apparentées, Nice: Université Sophia-Antipolis, 2001. Imprimé.
—. «La posesión en las lenguas americanas». Univer-SOS (Lenguas Indígenas y Universos Culturales), 1 (2004a): 81‒102. Impreso.
—. «A relação forma-sentido nas construções possessivas nas línguas do mundo». Letras de Hoje, Vol. 40/139 (2004b): 71‒86. Impresso.
Pérez Vázquez, María Enriqueta. «Pronombres superfluos: dativos benefactivos en español e italiano». F. San Vicente (ed.), Partículas/Particelle. Estudios de lingüística contrastiva español e italiano, Bologna: CLUEB, 2007: 11‒34. Impreso.
Porto Dapena, José Álvaro. Los pronombres. Madrid: EDI-6, 1986. Impreso.
Pottier, Bernard. Introduction à l'étude de la morphosyntaxe espagnole. Paris: Ediciones Hispanoamericanas, 1963. Imprimé.
R.A.E (Real Academia Española). Diccionario panhispánico de dudas. Madrid: Espasa, 2005-2013. Web.
Ruiz Gurillo, Leonor. «Interrelaciones entre gramaticalización y fraseología en español». Revista de filología española, XL/1 (2010): 173‒194. Impreso.
Seiler, Hansjakob. Possession as an Operational Dimension of Language. Tübingen: Gunther Narr, 1983. Print.
Taylor, John R. Possessives in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Print.
Torr, Jane and Alyson Simpson. «The emergence of grammatical metaphor». A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen et al. (eds.), Grammatical metaphor, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003: 169‒184. Print.
Velázquez, Maura. The grammar of possession: inalienability. Incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996. Print.
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Pamies Bertrán, A., and D. Natale. “Contrastive Observations on Possessive and Pseudo-Possessive Constructions in Spanish and Italian”. BEOIBERÍSTICA - Journal of Iberian, Latin American and Comparative Studies (ISSN: 2560-4163 Online), vol. 1, no. 1, May 2017, pp. 11-25, doi:10.18485/beoiber.2017.1.1.1.
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