Formális, kognitív, funkcionális és számítógépes nyelvészet
The paper presents a unique construction of possessing, in which the fact of the possessing
is marked three times. On the regent of the construction (which refers to the possessed
thing) there is a possessive suffix, and two other linguistic elements refer to the
possessor. Both are personal pronouns, the first is in nominative, the second is in
dative case. The study looks through the role of this structure in the secondary grammaticalization
of the suffix. The paper suggests that the grammaticalization is not a one way, linear
path. First, because there can be junctions in the grammaticalizational paths. Second,
because in the semantic extension, the newly appearing functions may have an effect
on the already existing system. The paper offers a corpus based analysis on how emphasizing
the possessor can be related to the ethical dative function. The ethical dative usually
occurs on the personal pronoun in the first or second persons (me, you) andrefers
to a figure that is highly involved in the communicative situation. Thus, both structure
types (the three times marked possessing and the ethical dative) elaborate emphasizing
personal relations in the communicative situation.
