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Universals in possessive morphology
Glossa, 2018 In this paper, we test the hypothesis that possessive pronouns have the same basic structure containing the genitive pronoun, plus, in some languages, some extra structure, as suggested by Caha (2009). In order to unravel the structure of these pronouns,
Jan Don, Yvonne Van Baal
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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination [PDF]
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 This paper suggests an analysis of English possessives and coordination that is compatible with the treatment of Germanic pronominal case developed by Parrott within the Distributed Morphology framework.
Jeffrey Keith Parrott
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Possessive Expressions in Javanese
International Journal of Cultural and Art Studies, 2020 This study aims to describe the characteristics of Possessive Construction in Javanese and relations of expressions between Possessor (PR) and Possessum (PS).
Kamilatun Baroroh, M. Mulyadi
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The case for consistent use of medical eponyms by eliminating possessive forms
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2018 The objective of this commentary is to highlight the pervasive usage of both forms of medical eponyms in medical literature amongst prestigious medical journals indexed in the PubMed database. This use of eponyms poses a source of confusion in literature
Kwabena Ayesu +3 more
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Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals
, 2019 This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both Abui (Papuan) and Alor Malay (Austronesian), but only become active speakers
George Saad +2 more
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Head and dependent marking and dependency length in possessive noun phrases: a typological study of morphological and syntactic complexity [PDF]
Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal, 2023 Kaius Sinnemäki
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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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Possessions and memories [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 People often acquire souvenirs and photographs to facilitate remembering, but possessions and memories can relate to each other in a variety of ways. This review paper presents four different connection types found between meaningful things in our everyday lives and our personal memories.
Annemarie Zijlema +6 more
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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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Rules and exceptions: A Tolerance Principle account of the possessive suffix in Northern East Cree.
Journal of Child Language, 2022 Debate around inflectional morphology in language acquisition has contrasted various rule- versus analogy-based approaches. This paper tests the rule-based Tolerance Principle (TP) against a new type of pattern in the acquisition of the possessive suffix
Ryan E. Henke
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