Intersective Gradience: Possessive Modifiers from Latin to Italian

Janice Aski ^[1]
1. [1] Ohio State University
  
  Ohio State University
  
  City of Columbus, Estados Unidos
Localización: Romance philology, ISSN 0035-8002, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fall - Special issue In memoriam: Ray Harris-Northall (1953-2009)), págs. 159-172
Idioma: inglés
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- In Standard Italian which, for the purposes of this article is the prescribed norm, possessive modifiers have a hybrid nature. The are pronominal in origin and share some morphological features as wel as the deictic or anaphoric features of their related pronouns. An overvie of these connections between possessives and personal pronouns is give in Table 1. In addition, possessive modifiers are related to adjectives, in that they agree in number and gender with the head noun. This is tru for all possessives except loro , the discussion of which is too complex to include here