This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp. Reflecting the stage of current research with respect to the expression of possession in the noun phrase, it focusses on issues such as alienable and inalienable possession, internal and external syntax of possessors, interaction between determiners and possessors, interpretation of possessors and typology of possessors. The papers, preceded by an up-to-date overview and discussion of the most important studies in the field, provide an excellent basis for comparative analyses of possession in the noun phrase between a large number of languages.

Table of contents

Contributors vii Abbreviations ix Introduction 1–19 Typology of possessors 1. A typology of possessive modifiers Tabea Ihsane 23–42 2. The possessive via associative anaphor Georges Kleiber 43–71 The internal syntax of possessor phrases 3. From DPs to NPs: A Bare Phrase Structure account of genitives Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 75–120 4. Determiner-possessor relation in the Bulgarian DP Lilia Schürcks and Dieter Wunderlich 121–139 5. On the asymmetrical but regular properties of French possessive DPs Anne Zribi-Hertz 141–163 External syntax 6. Some notes on the structure of alienable and inalienable possessors Artemis Alexiadou 167–188 7. Inalienable possession and the interpretation of determiners Jacqueline Guéron 189–220 8. The external possessor construction in West Flemish Liliane Haegeman 221–256 9. Grammaticalization and external possessor structures in Romance and Germanic languages Béatrice Lamiroy 257–280 Index of languages 281–282 Index of subjects 283–291