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Universals in possessive morphology [PDF]
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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Head and dependent marking and dependency length in possessive noun phrases: a typological study of morphological and syntactic complexity. [PDF]
Linguist Vanguard, 2023 The interaction of morphosyntactic features has been of great interest in research on linguistic complexity. In this paper we approach such interactions in possessive noun phrases.
Sinnemäki K, Haakana V.
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Northern Mansi possessive suffixes in non-possessive function
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 Research on possessive suffixes in Ob-Ugric languages, as in most Uralic languages, has primarily viewed them in the light of their terminological denomination – i.e., as markers of possessive relations, traditionally referred to as their prototypic use.
Gwen Eva Janda
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Why it should be "Alzheimer disease" rather than "Alzheimer's disease" [PDF]
Free NeuropathologyThe terms "Alzheimer's disease" and "Alzheimer disease" are often used interchangeably in the biomedical literature. Yet this seemingly minor grammatical difference carries implications that extend beyond style: the possessive form, marked by the 's ...
Cinthya Agüero +2 more
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Possessive Expressions in Javanese
, 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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Финно-угорский мирIntroduction. The dialects of the Mordovian Prisurye are characterized by a developed system of possessive suffixes and feature various means and forms of expressing possessive relations.
Ivan N. Ryabov +2 more
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Possessive Construction in Uab Meto [PDF]
RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa, 2019 This paper is a result of research which is aimed to uncover the structure and marking on the possessive construction in Uab Meto based on morpho-syntax point of view.
N. Benu
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Observations on non-possessive usages of personal markers (possessive suffixes) in Nganasan
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 This paper aims at a systematic overview of the non-possessive usages of possessive (relational) suffixes in Nganasan. In the analyzed corpus, the non-anchoring usage types of the 3rd person suffix (including the direct anaphoric and situational usages),
Réka Zayzon
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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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