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Possessive Adjectives Formed from Personal Names in Polish Translations of the New Testament [PDF]
, 2013 The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament.
Zarębski, Rafał
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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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Der adnominale possessive Dativ im Dialekt von Deutschpilsen (ungarisch Nagybörzsöny) [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2022 The article deals with the adnominal dative+possessive construction of the type in Bęəbən ir Gətrax (‘the women their costume = the costume of women’) and its different variants in the German dialect of Deutschpilsen, a small Hungarian language island in
Éva Márkus
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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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A note on the kinship system of Kenya Luo
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 The kinship terms of Kenya Luo show morphologically plural forms for both singular and plural possessors. This feature is not uniform throughout the system, but is present in some terms, absent in others, and variable in still others.
William M. Christie Jr
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Evaluative prenominal possessives in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2018 In this paper, the properties of Spanish evaluative prenominal possessives (i.e. the affective possessive preceding a proper name, the so-called “emphatic possessive”, and the possessive in the Old and American Spanish doubled possessive construction ...
Luis Eguren
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Beyond alienability: factors determining possessive classes in Piaroa
Linguistics, 2023 This article focuses on possession marking in Piaroa, a Jodï-Sáliban language spoken along the Middle Orinoco River on the Venezuelan-Colombian border.
Rosés Labrada Jorge Emilio
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara
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A Description of Ternate Malay [PDF]
, 2012 Ternate Malay is a local variety of Malay in Ternate, a small island in the Maluku Utara province in eastern Indonesia. The majority of speakers live in Ternate town, where it serves as mother tongue as well as a means of communication between people of ...
Litamahuputty, B. (Betty)
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Linguistics, 2023 This article presents an original analysis of possession in Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language, teasing apart the levels of lexical possessive noun classes, morphological derivation between noun classes, and adnominal possessive constructions.
Rose Françoise
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