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Agreement

sin (, si, sitt, sine) (determiner, possessive) is the reflexive possessive in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk). It inflects in gender and number, although gender is oblique in plural.

Norwegian nouns have an inherent gender: feminine, masculine or neuter. They do not inflect in gender -- they have a static one that does not change.

Hunden hadde i sin grådigheit forveksla refleksjonen sin med ein annan hund med bein.

“The dog in its greed had mistaken his reflection for another dog with a bone.”

Hunden
hund	en
dog	SGDEF
NMASC

hadde
ha	dde
have	PRET
V

i

in

PREP

sin
si	n
REFL	AGRMASC
PNposs

grådigheit

greed

NFEM

forveksla
forveksl	a
mix	PRF
V

refleksjonen
refleksjon	en
reflection	SGDEF
NMASC

sin
si	n
REFL	AGRMASC
PNposs

med

with

PREP

ein

aINDEFMASCSGAGR

DET

annan

different

DET

hund

dog

NMASC

med

with

PREP

bein

bone

NNEUT

Editor
This sentence has an auxiliary and a main verb. In between them is an adverbial phrase.

In the provided example, there are two occurrences of sin. Although they both look identical, they have different controllers.

The first occurence, «hunden hadde i sin», the controller is the noun hunden. It has the inherent feature NMASC, and it is singular definite. Gender and number is reflected in the possessive, where sin is the masculine singular. This is arguably a case of agreement, where the controller is the noun hunden, the target is sin, and the features are gender and number.

(the workings of the domains of anaphors to me feels a bit complicated, but as far as I can tell -- Domains can span from the beginning to the end of a sentence, as well as into subclauses).

The second occurence, «(...) forveksla refleksjonen sin», the controller is the noun refleksjonen. The agreement features are still gender and number.

An example to illustrate that it is in fact not hunden that is the controller, could be «(...) forveksla boka si». Boka (book) is a feminine noun, which is reflected in the inflection of the possessive.

Clause Linkage

I det han knurra for å skremme hunden, fall beinet i elva, borte for alltid.

“As he growled to scare the dog, the bone fell into the river, lost forever.”

i_det

as

CONJS

han

he3SGMASCNOM

PN

knurra
knurr	a
growl	PRET
V

for

PREP

å

to

CONJS

skremme

scareINF

V

hunden
hund	en
dog	SGDEF
NMASC

fall

fallPRET

V

beinet
bein	et
bone	SGDEF
NNEUT

i

in

PREP

elva
elv	a
river	SGDEF
NFEM

borte

gone

PREP

for

PREP

alltid

ever

ADV

Editor

«I det han knurra [for [å skremme hunden]]»

In terms of hierarchial downgrading, this seems to be an example of embedding, where the infinite phrase is embedded as an fill to the prepositional for.

The subordinate clause is desententialized; the verb skremme is not finite (but rather in the infinite form), and there is no expressed subject (for [å PRO skremme hunden]).

The subordinate clause seems to be inside the main clause (as part of an adverbial phrase).

The linking is made rather explicit by way of the infinitive marker in Norwegian, å, and relative to for -- this infinitive phrase is hardly mobile whatsoever.

Nicklas Nilsen 21:23, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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 ====Agreement====
-''sin (, si, sitt, sine)'' (determiner, possessive) is the reflexive possessive in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk). It inflects in gender and number, although gender is oblique in plural.<br>
+''sin (, si, sitt, sine)'' (determiner, possessive) is the reflexive possessive in Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk). It inflects in gender and number, although gender is oblique in plural.
 Norwegian nouns have an inherent gender: feminine, masculine or neuter. They do not inflect in gender -- they have a static one that does not change.
 <Phrase>41614</Phrase>
+[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/2568/ Editor] <br>
+This sentence has an auxiliary and a main verb. In between them is an adverbial phrase.
 In the provided example, there are two occurrences of ''sin''. Although they both look identical, they have different controllers.
-The first occurence, ''hunden hadde i sin'', the controller is the noun ''hunden''. It has the inherent feature NMASC, and it is singular definite. Gender and number is reflected in the possessive, where ''sin'' is the masculine singular. This is arguably a case of agreement, where the controller is the noun ''hunden'', the target is ''sin'', and the features are gender and number. <!-- Domain -->
+The first occurence, «''hunden hadde i sin''», the controller is the noun ''hunden''. It has the inherent feature NMASC, and it is singular definite. Gender and number is reflected in the possessive, where ''sin'' is the masculine singular. This is arguably a case of agreement, where the controller is the noun ''hunden'', the target is ''sin'', and the features are gender and number.
-The second occurence, ''(...) forveksla refleksjonen sin'', the controller is the noun ''refleksjonen''. The agreement features are still gender and number. An example to illustrate that it is in fact ''reflection'' that is the controller, could be ''(...) forveksla boka si''. ''Boka'' (book) is a feminine noun, which is reflected in the inflection of the possessive.
+(the workings of the domains of anaphors to me feels a bit complicated, but as far as I can tell -- Domains can span from the beginning to the end of a sentence, as well as into subclauses).
+The second occurence, «''(...) forveksla refleksjonen sin''», the controller is the noun ''refleksjonen''. The agreement features are still gender and number.
+An example to illustrate that it is in fact not ''hunden'' that is the controller, could be «''(...) forveksla boka si''». ''Boka'' (book) is a feminine noun, which is reflected in the inflection of the possessive.
 ====Clause Linkage====
+<Phrase>41613</Phrase>
+[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/2568/ Editor] <br>
+«I det han knurra [for [å skremme hunden]]»
+In terms of hierarchial downgrading, this seems to be an example of embedding, where the infinite phrase is embedded as an fill to the prepositional ''for''. <!-- what kind of embedding?-->
+The subordinate clause is desententialized; the verb ''skremme'' is not finite (but rather in the infinite form), and there is no expressed subject (for [å PRO skremme hunden]).
+The subordinate clause seems to be inside the main clause (as part of an adverbial phrase).
+The linking is made rather explicit by way of the infinitive marker in Norwegian, ''å'', and relative to ''for'' -- this infinitive phrase is hardly mobile whatsoever.
+[[User:Nicklas Nilsen|Nicklas Nilsen]] 21:23, 16 February 2014 (UTC)