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Northern Mansi possessive suffixes in non-possessive function [PDF]

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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Possessive predicational vocatives in Scandinavian

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2016
Scandinavian is known to have vocative phrases that contain a possessive second person pronoun and a noun, and possibly also one or more adjectives, as in the Norwegian example din lille fjott, which means ‘you little dork’ although din is formally ...
Marit Julien
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Predicative Possessive Constructions in Hindi

Bhasha, 2022
Hindi has more than one construction for the encoding of possessive relationships: in particular, this language lacks a nominative‑accusative construction and a ‘have’‑verb, and instead encodes possession through intransitive sentences with the ...
Carnesale, Lucrezia
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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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Possessive Pronouns in German [PDF]

, 2022
This research describes possessive pronouns in German. This study aims to describe the form and functions of noun phrases with possessive pronouns in German. The data is obtained from short stories taken from the Onleihe Goethe Institute website.
Trisiana, Inggit, Hariri, Tatang
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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, Barbara Egedi
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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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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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English possessive determiner phrases and coordination

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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The possessive logic of settler‐invader nations in Olympic ceremonies [PDF]

, 2012
Staging Olympic Games offers hosts a unique opportunity to showcase their nation as a tourist destination. This opportunity is particularly exploited in the opening and closing ceremonies that are able to attract unparalleled international television ...
Ellis, Cath
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