TY - JOUR AU - Menon, Mythili AU - Pancheva, Roumyana PY - 2019/05/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The grammatical life of property concept roots in Malayalam JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 18 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/318 SP - 289-302 AB - <p>We provide an account of the morpho-syntax and semantics of property concept denoting expressions in Malayalam. We suggest that property concepts are lexicalized as uncategorized roots. Depending on the category of the functional heads they merge with, they participate in two types of predication. Both types are based on possession, overtly or covertly expressed. Our results add to recent work by Francez and Koontz-Garboden (2013) concerning variation in the lexicalization and grammar of property concepts cross-linguistically.</p> ER -