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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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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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Kanuri DP Hypothesis: A Minimalist Approach
Arbitrer, 2020 This paper examines the structure of Kanuri DP (structure) Hypothesis within the framework of Abney (1987) and Chomsky (1995) Minimalist Programme (MP).
Baba Kura Alkali Gazali
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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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The Consequences of Possession [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This is the first attempt to look in a coherent fashion at the topic of possession in Law from a comparative and historical perspective. This volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series is an international collection of essays on the consequences of possession in law, examined from a comparative and historical perspective.
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REiLA, 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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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007 In this article I identify some Spanish words as AxParts (Svenonius 2006) and I discuss their properties, some of which have already been noted in the previous literature.
Antonio Fábregas
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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof
Corela, 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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Linguistics, 2022 This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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