Who are you?

I am a linguist and a Hispanicist with a fascination with "complex" linguistic structures. 

Why possessive structures?

My interest in possessive structures was sparked in Linda McManness' Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics course at Baylor University. In offering feedback on a classmate's paper, Linda pointed out that in Spanish, even though a possessor might be plural, it would be paired with a singular possessum to indicate a 'one-each' meaning. 

Although I had been speaking Spanish for eight years and was an MA candidate at the time, I had never realized this was the case. So, when I had the opportunity to conduct experimental research on the topic in Pilar Chamorro's Advanced Spanish Pragmatics and Syntax and Semantics courses at the University of Georgia, I seized it. Pilar provided invaluable guidance as I designed the survey instrument, distributed it, and analyzed the data. 

Why this project?

What is possession?

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How are possessor and possessum defined?

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