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Possessive Agreement Turned into a Derivational Suffix
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2018This paper introduces a non-canonical type of grammaticalization: it argues that the -ik partitive suffix of Hungarian has been grammaticalized from a 3PL possessive agreement morpheme, undergoing semantic bleaching (the loss of person and number features, i.e., the loss of referential identifiability), decategorization, and morphologial simplification.
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The Finnish possessive suffixes
Language, 1980A distinctive feature of Finnish morphology is the possessive suffixes, which are found not only on possessed nouns, but also on adjectives, postpositions, and untensed verbs. Traditional grammars have taken the view that these suffixes arise through a rule of agreement with a genitive specifier, which may be subject to subsequent deletion rules.
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Third-person possessive suffixes as definite articles in Semitic
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2012One of the best-known features of Neo-Ethio-Semitic languages is the use of the third-person possessive suffix as a definite article (Appleyard 2005, Rubin 2010). In this study we show that third-person possessive suffixes are also used as definite articles in other Semitic languages, although in none of them is this function fully grammaticalized, as ...
Na'Ama Pat-El
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The “Possessed Noun Suffix” and Possession in Two Northern Dene (Athabaskan) Languages
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2016This paper documents and analyzes the possessive construction in the Northern Dene (Athabaskan) languages Denesųline and Tlichǫ. The construction occurs not only when one noun is related to another (whether the relation is one of literal possession or not) but also with subsets of relative clauses and compounds, and when a numeral precedes a unit noun.
Leslie Saxon, Andrea Wilhelm
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Unmarked Accusative and Genitive after Possessive Suffixes in Tuvan
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Faits De Langues
Abstract This article examines the usage patterns and declining process of possessive suffixes in Finnic languages. Possessive suffixes are pronoun originated grammatical markers that have cognates in all branches of Uralic language. Alongside their main function as adnominal possessive markers, they are known to have a range of other meanings and ...
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Abstract This article examines the usage patterns and declining process of possessive suffixes in Finnic languages. Possessive suffixes are pronoun originated grammatical markers that have cognates in all branches of Uralic language. Alongside their main function as adnominal possessive markers, they are known to have a range of other meanings and ...
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Definitely Not Possessed? Possessive Suffixes with Definiteness Marking Function
2013In this paper I argue that the definiteness marking function of the possessive suffix of some Uralic languages is not the outcome of a grammaticalization pathway but has always been inherent to them. The possessive suffix has thus two main functions: establishing a relation between entities or a relation between an entity and the discourse and ...
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