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

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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Questioning the relevance of alienability in Arawak linguistics: an innovative analysis of possession in Mojeño Trinitario

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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Dative by genitive replacement in the Greek language of the papyri: a diachronic account of case semantics [PDF]

, 2015
Semantic analysis of the prenominal first person singular genitive pronoun (μου) in the Greek of the documentary papyri shows that the pronoun is typically found in the position between a verbal form and an alienable possessum which functions as the ...
Stolk, Joanne Vera
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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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(Axial) Parts and Wholes

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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A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia

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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Les possessifs ou la complexité d’une catégorie. Perspectives linguistiques et didactiques

Lidil
In this paper, we analyse the semantic category of possession and we focus on the so‑called “possessive adjective” of the grammatical tradition. Using empirical data from free and constrained productions, spoken and written, we show how acquisition ...
Tatiana Taous
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’Habere’ «po-ural'ski». ’Habere’ in Uralic; pp. 161-177 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2008
The paper discusses the modes of expressing the habitive (or existential-possessive) structure ('somebody has something') and the possessive attributive construction ('somebody's something') in Uralic languages, their morphological structures and the ...
László Honti
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