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Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Jung Message 1: The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Jung Date: 29-May-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Syntax of the Be-Possessive: Jung E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Syntax of the Be-Possessive Subtitle: Parametric variation and surface diversities Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 172 Published: 2011 Publisher: John Benjamins                 http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20172 Author: Hakyung Jung Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290649 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290649 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255556 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 99.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255556 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255556 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00 Abstract: This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect constructions in Russian/North Russian within a generative framework. Apparently diverse constructions are construed as deriving from the have/be parameter, which depends on the utilization of the prepositional complementizer with a Case feature. The be-perfect structure provides an adequate environment where ergativity is encoded via verbal nominalization. The relevance of the be-perfect structure for a split ergative pattern shows that the ergative system is a syntactically conditioned phenomenon rather than a purely morphological diversity. This volume also offers the diachronic study of the be-syntax, investigating the evolution of the be-perfect and be-modal constructions, which has rarely been explored within a formal framework. Concrete scenarios are proposed for the developmental paths of the be-perfect and the be-modal constructions, based on textual evidence in old North Russian. 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