Dimensions of Possession - elchacocomoarealinguistica

Typology of French NP de NP structures 151nominal morphosyntax giving rise to such markers of attributive possession asFrench de, Spanish de and Italian di.There seems to be independent evidence for the two levels since they play arole in the acceptability of associative anaphora as Kleiber (1997) has shownwhen describing the semantic links in Part/Whole and locative relations whichcontain intrinsic links. As is shown in examples (6) and (7a), the prototypicalcases accept the associative anaphora but not the discursive one in (7b) whichhas no such intrinsic links (‘the vase’ in (7b) must have been introduced before):(6) Il s’abrita sous un vieux tilleul. Le tronc était tout craquelé. (part/whole)‘He took shelter under the old lime tree. The trunk was quite crackled’(7) a. Nous entrâmes dans un village. L’église était située sur une colline.(locative)‘We came into a village. The church was on a hill’b. Nous entrâmes dans une cuisine. ?Le vase était posé sur la table.(locative discourse case) (Kleiber 1997: 56)‘We came into a kitchen. The vase was on the table’3. The level of the micro-structure and the prototypical casesIn this section we will take a closer glance at the prototypical cases. These casesare distinguished by an analysis of the properties of N1 and N2 and bysyntactic tests of some NP de NP constructions.3.1 Presentation of a noun classificationWe will present three groups of nouns. Group I shows characteristics that helpto trigger the interpretation of the whole NP de NP construction, whereasgroups II and III, in contrast, contain multirelational nouns which do notconvey a given meaning (Bartning 1996). Moreover, nouns of the latter groupsare referentially autonomous, while those of the first group are oftensyncategorematic or referentially non-autonomous (Kleiber 1981, 1997,1999a). (For a classification of the NPs according to their cognitive ontologicalstatus, see Fraurud 1996.)Noun classificationGroup I contains nouns which determine the meaning of the whole NP de NP.The semantic relation between the two nouns “pre-exists’’ or exists as a