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Human infants can override possessive tendencies to share valued items with others
Scientific Reports, 2021 Possessiveness toward objects and sharing are competing tendencies that influence dyadic and group interactions within the primate lineage. A distinctive form of sharing in adult Homo sapiens involves active giving of high-valued possessions to others ...
Rodolfo C Barragan, A. Meltzoff
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2020 People with aphasia demonstrate impaired production of bound inflectional morphemes, such as noun plurals and possession. They often show greater difficulty in marking possession versus plurality.
Melissa D. Stockbridge +6 more
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