Towards a Diachronic Theory of Genitive Assignment in Romance
This chapter deals with the relevance of some cases of prepositionless genitives in Romance for a general theory of genitive assignment. It examines the peculiar properties of a specific class of Italian N+N compounds, identifying in the juxtaposition genitives of Old French, Occitan, and crucially Old Italian, the possible diachronic antecedent for such construction, which—it argues—is strictly intertwined with Romance construct state.
Keywords: Old French and Old Italian, N+N compounds, syntax‐morphology interface, strategies of genitive assignment, Romance construct state
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