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

208 Asya Pereltsvaig & Ekaterina Lyutikova

A more complex nominal containing both types of possessors and a case marker for

the locative is illustrated below:

(34) a. bez-neŋ däftär-lär papka-lar-ıbız-da

we-gen notebook-pl folder-pl-1.pl-loc

‘in our folder for notebooks’

b.

DP K^0

D′

KP

DP/KP

PossP D^0

Poss′

NumP Poss^0

PossP

bez-neŋ

we-

däftär-lär

notebook-

-da

-ıbız

-lar

NP

N′

Num^0

LOC

N^0

papka

folder

5. Ezafe-2 and ezafe-3: The interpretation of the possessor

So far, we have argued that ezafe-3 nominals are DPs, in which the genitive-marked

possessor occupies [Spec, DP] at Spell-Out, while the ezafe-3 marker appears in D^0.

In contrast, we propose to analyze ezafe-2 nominals as PossPs (smaller than DP),

in which the unmarked possessor occupies [Spec,PossP], while the ezafe-2 marker

appears in Poss^0. Now we shall turn to the twin issues of where the two types of pos-

sessors originate and what their possible interpretations are.