Abstract
Like modern Greenbergian typology, traditional dialectology has assumed a functional perspective in its morphosyntactic research. In this view, syntactic doubling phenomena in dialects have been mostly understood as means of extending either clarity and/or emphasis. The functional perspective has its merits and is justified: in the field of dialect syntax, there are many older studies which have revealed plenty of very interesting data. In colloquial and dialectal German, there exists a possessive construction which shows a kind of double marking. DP-internal prenominal possessor construction (DPIPPC) seem to occur in all Germanic languages, as well as in many non-Germanic and non-European languages. DPIPPCs exhibit a kind of double marking which is restricted to the surface, whereas there is no doubling in narrow syntax proper. The traditional analysis of DPIPPCs as possessor doubling is based on the assumption that possessive pronouns are all of the same syntactic category 'pronoun'. Keywords: dialectal German; DP-internal prenominal possessor construction (DPIPPC); morphosyntactic research; non-European languages; syntactic doubling phenomena
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