Syntactic features of inalienable possession in the French have+small clause and the Bulgarian be with structures
Syntactic features of inalienable possession in the French have+small clause and the Bulgarian be with structures

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to compare the syntax and the lexical constraints of two structures denoting inalienable possession, namely the French “have + small clause” structure and what I argue to be its Bulgarian equivalent-the “be with” structure. The parallelism between them is established on the basis of the fact that the two verbs they include - have and be respectively - are both copulas. It follows that in both cases the noun in object position must be inalienable and the modifier of this noun can denote a transitory property.

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