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Northern Mansi possessive suffixes in non-possessive function

open access: yesEesti 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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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination

open access: yesLinguistica 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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Der adnominale possessive Dativ im Dialekt von Deutschpilsen (ungarisch Nagybörzsöny) [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistische 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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Evaluative prenominal possessives in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: 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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Adnominal Possessive Constructions in Narym, Vasjugan and Middle-Ob Dialects of Selkup; pp. 54-64 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2017
The paper presents an analysis of the structural types of the adnominal possessive constructions in three little-studied Southern dialects of Selkup: Narym, Vasjugan and Middle-Ob.
Victoria Vorobeva   +3 more
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A note on the kinship system of Kenya Luo

open access: yesStudies 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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Beyond alienability: factors determining possessive classes in Piaroa

open access: yesLinguistics, 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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Applying Possessive Pronoun in Writing Sentences: Exploring Students’ Ability and Problems in a Mixed Method Study

open access: yesREiLA, 2020
The purpose of this research was to find out the students' ability in applying Possessive pronoun in writing sentences and the problems encounter it.  This mixed method study employs an explanatory design to reveals it.
Syahdan Syahdan, Eka Utami Putri
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Questioning the relevance of alienability in Arawak linguistics: an innovative analysis of possession in Mojeño Trinitario

open access: yesLinguistics, 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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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof

open access: yesCorela, 2015
Genitive is a widely studied construction of languages, Wolof included. But, for Wolof, the proposed analyses have no typological reach. Reading these analyses, we could have the feeling that the genitive construction in Wolof is, from a typological ...
Maximilien Guérin
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