A distinction between inalienable and alienable possession is considered to be crosslinguistically common. For the Tungusic languages, it is generally illustrated with examples that contrast inherently possessed body parts with body parts belonging to a ...
Natalia Aralova
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Observations on non-possessive usages of personal markers (possessive suffixes) in Nganasan
This paper aims at a systematic overview of the non-possessive usages of possessive (relational) suffixes in Nganasan. In the analyzed corpus, the non-anchoring usage types of the 3rd person suffix (including the direct anaphoric and situational usages),
Réka Zayzon
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About the Non-Personal Definite Function of the Uralic 3rd Person Possessive Suffix [PDF]
Finno-Ugric, Selkup, Turkic and Tungusic share a common (preferred) use of the 3rd person possessive suffix (3Px) in the non-personal definite function.
Ago Künnap
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Vokativ ili posessivnyj suffiks: k interpretatsii suffiksal'nyh sredstv vyrazhenija vokativnosti v komi jazyke. Vocative or Possessive Suffix: Interpretation of the Suffixal Means of Expressing Vocativity in the Komi Language; pp. 120-129 [PDF]
The paper is devoted to a general theoretical problem of interpretation of vocative forms in modern linguistics. On the basis of the analysis of suffixal means of vocativity expression in Komi dialects the author comes to the conclusion that the Komi ...
G Nekrasova
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Introduction. The dialects of the Ruzaevsky District of the Republic of Mordovia (the Ruzaevsky area) are characterized by a well-developed system of possessive suffixes, which constitute the main means of expressing the category of possession.
Lyubov P. Vodyasova, Galina S. Ivanova
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Possessive Adjectives in the Late Egyptian grammar and Its popularity In the "D'Orbiney" Papyrus EA.10183 [PDF]
Possessive Adjectives were very common and widespread in the Egyptian language in its late linguistic phase, as it was used and appeared abundantly in many texts and papyri dating back to that late linguistic period.
Mahmoud Hamid Farraj Elhosary
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On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession.
Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
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THE EARLIEST OIKONYMS OF THE OSTROH REGION WITH THE POSSESSIVE SUFFIX -inъ: THE CASE OF LIUCHYN
The article analyses the origin of the name of the village of Liuchyn, located in Rivne District of Rivne Region. In the period of the late Middle Ages and the early modern era, the settlement formed part of the Ostroh volost, a landed district belonging to the Princes of Ostroh.
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Babaring lelakon; The use of -ing in Javanese genitive constructions
Two nominals in a genitive construction in Javanese are typically linked by the suffix -é in the low speech level and by -ipun in the high level, both of which are derived from the third person possessive suffix.
Daniel Krauße
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’Habere’ «po-ural'ski». ’Habere’ in Uralic; pp. 161-177 [PDF]
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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