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Passivizability of Possess()

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Subject Honorification : with special Reference to Possessive and Existential Constructions in Japanese

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Social work and linguistic systems: Marking possession in Canadian English

Language Variation and Change, 2010
AbstractThe system of stative possession has been subject to variation and change since at least the Early Modern period, withhave gotrising in frequency in British and Antipodean varieties of English. In Canadian English, as represented by data from the largest city, Toronto,havepredominates.
Sali A. Tagliamonte   +2 more
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Interpenetration of linguistic levels: French inalienable possession

Lingua, 1984
Abstract This paper argues for a multi-level view of French inalienable possession. Syntax, semantics and pragmatics all come into play, depending on both lexicon and type of discourse. Following a summary of the syntagmatic rules typifying both handbooks and theoretical treatments, it is shown that such rules apply primarily to a core of high ...
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The extension of a linguistic category : middle voice in Homeric Greek between subject affectedness, reflexivity and possession

Archivio glottologico italiano : CVI, 1, 2021, 2021
This paper addresses the function of the transitive middle in ancient Greek, with the aim of providing an answer to the following question: what is the relationship between the unaccusative middle and the two-argument manifestations of the category?
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The Spanish doubled possessive construction from a cross-linguistic perspective

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2016
Abstract This paper presents a cross-linguistic analysis of the Old and American Spanish doubled possessive construction, in which the possessor is doubly marked in a nominal phrase by means of both a third person prenominal possessive pronoun and a prepositional possessive phrase (su casa de Juan ‘lit. his house of John’).
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Non-subject oriented existential, possessive and dative-experiencer constructions in Modern Hebrew – a cross-linguistic typological approach

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2023
Abstract This paper sheds light on the alignment of Existential, Possessive and Dative-Experiencer constructions prevalent in Modern Hebrew that involve ambiguity of syntactic relations. Data-driven and employing a strictly typological approach, the study argues that the constructions in question are fundamentally related, and that they ...
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