Advances in the Syntax of DPs - Structure, agreement, and case

204 Asya Pereltsvaig & Ekaterina Lyutikova

The more complex nominals with both ezafe-2 and ezafe-3, such as those in (6) above

(repeated here for convenience), have the structures schematized below.

(24) a. [bez-neŋ [däftär-lär papka-sı]] (= (6))

we-gen notebook-pl folder-3

‘our folder for notebooks’

b. [bez-neŋ [däftär-lär papka-bız]]

we-gen notebook-pl folder-1.pl

‘our folder for notebooks’

(25) a.

Possessor D′

DP (= (24a))

PossP D^0

-sı

ezafe-2

bez-neŋ

we-

Possessor Poss′

däftär-lär

notebook-

papka

folder

NumP Poss^0

Ø

b.

Possessor D′

DP (= (24b))

bez-neŋ PossP D^0

we-

Possessor Poss′

däftär-lär

notebook-

papka

folder

NumP Poss^0

-bız

ezafe-3

Ø

Note that so far we have said nothing about the structure of the possessors themselves.

We turn to this issue directly in the following section.