摘要：Norwegian body part nouns can take PP possessors with the preposition på ‘on’ (as in
De barberte hodet på ham ‘they shaved head.DEF on him’). Their grammatical
properties are discussed, and it is shown that they are restricted in various ways,
concerning both structure and distribution. Body part nouns with PP possessors are both
different from and similar to the dative external possessors in languages such as French
and German. An important difference is that the Norwegian PP possessors can be either
external or internal to the body part noun phrase. The internal possessor represents an
innovation, a new possessive in Norwegian.
