Various languages allow instances of external possession—possessive encoding without a
possessive structure in DP. The analysis of these cases has long been a battleground of …

The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in
Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the …

The book examines the impact of verbal semantics–telicity and affectedness, mostly–on
differential object marking (DOM) in Spanish. It presents two studies providing empirical …

This book explores the relationships between possession, existence and location. After
revising the conceptualization of possession in Latin, the analysis is extended to Spanish …

This paper examines data from Spanish middle-passive sentences whose grammatical
subject contains a body-part noun, externally possessed by means of a dative possessor. I …

This paper revisits the phenomenon of inalienable possession between a dative argument
and a body-part noun in Spanish. Specifically, it looks at contexts where the inalienable …

In this article we present an analysis of a specific phenomenon of Bulgarian syntax, which
can be better understood, we will argue, through a comparison with Romance. As it is often …

In this paper we address possessor dative structures (PDSs) in European Portuguese (EP)
and in the Mozambican variety of Portuguese spoken in Maputo, which is mainly in contact …

This paper focuses on the notion of “caused possession” as the key factor responsible for a
number of properties that Spanish dative structures show when inspected closely. Among …

I discuss the syntax and semantics of dative DPs with a spatial (Ground) interpretation,
focusing on those dependent on prefixed verbs, in Early and Classical Latin. I assess and …