She argues that these differences are the reflex of different underlying representations for the two types of possessor relations.
Therefore, a valid comparison of populations of speakers requires that the same head nouns and possessors types be used in all groups.
Table 5 displays how thematicity of the possessor dovetails with genitive variation.
Moreover, if the reflexive in possessor position is stressed, it cannot be dropped.
The incorporation of rural gentry also prevented unrest in the countryside, by aligning the main possessors of armed force with the imperial state.
The possessed noun must immediately precede the possessor.
In such cases, the possessors are highly animate things (animals, rivers, trees), or the locations of human instruments.
Therefore, when a verb which does not lexicalize caused possession is found in the double object variant the first object has an intended possessor interpretation.
