Thematic Relations in Phrasal Possessives of English and Kurdish
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper deals with possessive phrases in the framework of Government-Binding (GB) theory. GB theory itself is part of a series of modifications of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar. The GB theory consists of seven modules; one of them is theta theory (θ-theory). Hence, our paper tries to indicate how θ-theory is applied to phrasal possessives in English and Kurdish. This paper provides a solution to the hypothesis that θ-theory, as a universal principle, is applied to Kurdish possessives with reference to English. Also, the application of the principle to the possessives of both languages is indicated in a comparative method. The focus of the paper is on phrasal constructions in both languages. As for Kurdish,the data of Central Kurdish (CK) is adopted. The paper consists of four sections. In the introduction part, we shed some light on the title. Section two is devoted to thematic relations in English possessives in which various types of possessive phrases are discussed with respect to the θ-roles assigned to their arguments. In section three, we pay attention to CK possessives with some reference to their English counterparts by elaborating the types of CK possessive phrases on the basis of their nominals.
Authors and Affiliations
Abbas Fadhillutfi, Salih Ibrahim Ahmed
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