This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of the clause-level argument-like behaviour of internal possessors. It offers focused case studies of the syntactic, semantics, and pragmatics of the phenomenon in languages of the Americas, Eurasia, South Asia, and Australia, based on novel data collected by the authors.

1: Irina Nikolaeva, András Bárány, and Oliver Bond: Introduction 2: Yogendra P. Yadava, Oliver Bond, Irina Nikolaeva, and Sandy Ritchie: The syntax of possessor prominence in Maithili 3: Oliver Bond, Felicity Meakins, and Rachel Nordlinger: Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji 4: Sandy Ritchie: Disjoint and reflexive prominent internal possessor constructions in Chimane 5: Jean-Pierre Koenig and Karin Michelson: Extended agreement in Oneida (Iroquoian) 6: Aslı Göksel and Balkız Öztürk: Conditions on prominent internal possessors in Turkish 7: Sergey Say: Prominent internal possessors in Bashkir 8: Irina Nikolaeva and András Bárány: Proximate possessors References Index

Provides the first comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of internal possessors that exhibit clause-level arguments Explores an issue that poses challenges for virtually all syntactic theories Based on extensive data from a wide range of languages

András Bárány is a Post-doctoral Researcher at SOAS, University of London. His PhD from the University of Cambridge explored the relationship between case and agreement in Hungarian and from a comparative perspective. His research interests include morphosyntactic phenomena across languages, such as possession, switch-reference, and differential argument marking, as well as Uralic and Turkic languages. He is the author of the OUP volume Person, Case, and Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Inverse Agreement and Global Case Splits (2017). Oliver Bond is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey. His research interests include theoretical morphosyntax, typology, and language documentation and description. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Linguistics and Linguistic Typology, and he is the co-editor, with Greville G. Corbett, Marina Chumakina, and Dunstan Brown, of Archi: Complexities of Agreement in Cross-Theoretical Perspective (OUP, 2016). Irina Nikolaeva is a Professor of Linguistics at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests are linguistic typology, syntax, morphology, information structure, and non-transformational theories of grammar, as well as the documentation and description of endangered Uralic, Altaic, and Palaeosiberian languages. Her recent books include Objects and Information Structure (with Mary Dalrymple; CUP, 2011) and A Grammar of Tundra Nenets (de Gruyter, 2014).

Provides the first comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of internal possessors that exhibit clause-level arguments Explores an issue that poses challenges for virtually all syntactic theories Based on extensive data from a wide range of languages