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Possessive Adjectives in the Late Egyptian grammar and Its popularity In the "D'Orbiney" Papyrus EA.10183 [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2022 Possessive Adjectives were very common and widespread in the Egyptian language in its late linguistic phase, as it was used and appeared abundantly in many texts and papyri dating back to that late linguistic period.
Mahmoud Hamid Farraj Elhosary
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The submerged genitive in Old Prussian
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 This paper is devoted to the Old Prussian phrase ʃwaiāʃmu ʃupʃei buttan ‘to his own house’ (Enchiridion, III 876). Far from being simply the result of a syntactic error, the genitive ʃupʃei ‘of oneself’ can be recognized as the reflex of an archaic ...
Daniel Petit
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Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, 2021 On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.
Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
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Patterns of variation in existential constructions
Isogloss, 2015 The main goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, to highlight the patterns of variation among the existential constructions found in Italo-Romance and Sardinian dialects; on the other, to examine the observed microvariation in a ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Possessive Constructions in the Obdorsk Dialect of the Khanty Language; pp. 129-150 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2018 The paper presents an analysis of the structural types of possessive constructions in the Obdorsk dialect of Khanty. It is shown that in this dialect the concept of possession is encoded by means of adnominal and predicative possessive constructions of ...
Victoria Vorobeva, Irina Novitskaya
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NPs in German: Locality, theta roles, possessives, and genitive arguments
Glossa, 2021 Since Abney (1987), the DP-analysis has been the standard analysis for nominal complexes, but in the last decade, the NP analysis has experienced a revival. In this spirit, we provide an NP analysis for German nominal complexes in HPSG.
Antonio Machicao y Priemer +1 more
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External versus internal possessor structures and inalienability in Russian [PDF]
, 2003 This study deals with the choice between two external possessor structures in Russian: the possessive dative and the U + genitive PP. Is shows that this choice is primarily related to the thematic role of the possessor adjunct, which can vary with the ...
Paykin, Katia, Van Peteghem, Marleen
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Exponence, allomorphy and haplology in the number and State morphology of Modern Hebrew
Glossa, 2018 This paper provides an account of the regularities of plural exponence in Modern Hebrew. There are two genders in Modern Hebrew, each with its specific plural marker.
Noam Faust
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Inflected and uninflected possessives and Lithuanian kienõ
Baltistica, 2018 It is argued that the uninflected possessive adjective Lithuanian kienõ ‘whose’ replaces an earlier form *kienè which arose from the addition of stressed -nè to monosyllabic *kie. As the source of the latter form, an innovation *kwo-iʔ ‘whose’ is posited,
Michiel de Vaan
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Moderna Språk, 2020 In this introductory article, we will first illustrate the great morpho-syntactic diversity that exists in the Romance possessive systems from a comparative perspective, and then detail the recent changes that have taken place.
Miriam Bouzouita +1 more
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