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The “Possessed Noun Suffix” and Possession in Two Northern Dene (Athabaskan) Languages

International Journal of American Linguistics, 2016
This 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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From possessive suffix to affective demonstrative suffix in Hungarian: a grammaticalization analysis

Morphology, 2018
The non-possessive uses of possessive morphology in Uralic languages have been a topic of intense debate (Fraurud 2001; Nikolaeva 2003; Gerland 2014; Janda 2015; E. Kiss and Tanczos to appear). In this paper, I focus on a special use of the poss.3sg suffix in Hungarian constructions such as a hulyeje (the stupid-poss.3sg): lit.
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Definitely Not Possessed? Possessive Suffixes with Definiteness Marking Function

2013
In 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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