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Chappell, Hilary, and Denis Creissels. "Topicality and the typology of predicative possession." Linguistic Typology 23, no. 3 (2019): 467–532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0016.

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Abstract Recent accounts on the typology of predicative possession, including those by Stassen, recognise a Topic Possessive type with the possessee coded like the figure in an existential predication, and the possessor coded as a topic that is not subcategorised by the predicate and is not related to any syntactic position in the comment, literally: As for Possessor, there is Possessee. The Asian region is explicitly singled out as being a Topic Possessive area. On the basis of a sample of 71 languages from the four main language families of continental East and Southeast Asia – Sino-Tibetan,

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Butorin, S. S. "The ways of expressing attributive possession in Ket: possessive syntactic constructions." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 2 (2021): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/75/17.

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The paper analyzes the structural models of Ket possessive constructions. The means of ex-pressing possessive construction components and the ways of marking possessive relations between the first possessive construction component denoting the subject of possession (a possessor) and the second component indicating the object of possession (a possessum) are considered. The study is based on the conception proposed by E. Vajda, according to which the possessive markers are possessive pronominal clitics, used as either clitics or proclitics, depending on the context. Two-component and multiple-co

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Worku, Firew Girma. "Possessive Construction in Mursi." Arba Minch University Journal of Culture and Language Studies 1, no. 1 (2022): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.59122/1355c44.

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This paper deals with possessive construction in Mursi, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people located in southwestern, Ethiopia. Mursi has a fairly rich syntactic system for the expression of possession or ownership. A plausible reason for acquiring such a rich expression of syntactic construction ofpossession is that it has both a head and dependent marking system. As a head-dependent marking language, both the head and the dependent are marked by appropriate dependency relation marking morphological elements. The head can be marked with two different morphologies, modific

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Benu, Naniana. "Possessive Construction in Uab Meto." RETORIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa 5, no. 1 (2019): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/jr.5.1.897.45-51.

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This paper is a result of research which is aimed to uncover the structure and marking on the possessive construction in Uab Meto based on morpho-syntax point of view. The data collected for this research were classified into the primary data (observation) and the secondary data (the data that are obtained from texts). The technique employed to analyze the data was descriptive-analytic, and the approach applied was deductive-inductive. The result of the research shows that in Uab Meto, predicative possession is expressed through the verb muiɁ ‘have/has’. In some usages, muiɁ metathezised to mu

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Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes. "Possession in Patani." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 76, no. 3 (2023): 443–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2023-2016.

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Abstract This paper provides the first description of the possessive system in Patani, a South Halmahera-West New Guinea language (Austronesian). Possession in Patani involves the interplay of several parameters. Syntactically, there are two broad possessive constructions: direct, and indirect. Morphologically, both constructions make use of pronominal proclitics and possessive suffixes which express the person and number of the possessor. In the direct construction, this possessive marking attaches directly to the noun, whereas the indirect construction makes use of a possessive particle (a r

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Haspelmath, Martin. "Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity." Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36, no. 2 (2017): 193–231. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1042727.

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This paper argues that alienability contrasts in adnominal possessive constructions should not be explained by iconicity of distance, but by predictability due to the higher relative frequency of possessed occurrences of inalienable nouns. While it is true that when there is an alienability split, the alienable construction typically has an additional marker which often separates the possessor from the possessed noun, the broader generalization is that additional marking is found when the possessive relationship is less predictable. This generalization also extends to cases of antipossessive m

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Professor Yina Godwin, Dr. Rosaline Mnguhenen Sokpo, Isaac Kina, and Dorothy Nginbee Kenen. "ON THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF TIV PERSONAL POSSESSIVES." Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature 1, no. 3 (2020): 90–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v1i3.10.

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A possessive is a word or grammatical construction that indicates possession or ownership. In Transformational-Generative Grammar, a popular proposal has been that in surface structure possessive expressions, the possessive sits in the specifier position of a DP headed by a null possessive determiner. This paper is an attempt to present a unified account of the morphology and the syntax of Tiv personal possessives. Tiv possessive construction has never received much attention in linguistic analysis. Therefore, the morphosyntactic behaviour of possessives in Tiv is worthy of study in order to c

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HENKE, Ryan E. "The development of possession in the L1 acquisition of Northern East Cree." Journal of Child Language 46, no. 05 (2019): 980–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000919000217.

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AbstractThis study presents the first investigation of the development of possessive constructions in Northern East Cree, a polysynthetic language indigenous to Canada. It examines transcripts from naturalistic recording sessions involving one adult and one child, from age 2;01.12 to 3;08.24. Findings reveal that, despite the frequency of possessive inflection in child-directed speech, the child overwhelmingly produces a possessive construction that circumvents this morphology. This construction, named here the equational possessive strategy (EPS), is largely undescribed in existing literature

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Kamilatun Baroroh and Mulyadi Mulyadi. "Possessive Expressions in Javanese." International Journal of Culture and Art Studies 4, no. 1 (2020): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/ijcas.v4i1.3848.

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This study aims to describe the characteristics of Possessive Construction in Javanese and relations of expressions between Possessor (PR) and Possessum (PS). The source of data are texts in Javanese from Djaka Lodang Magazine Volume XXII, XXIV, XXIX year 2017 and Panjebar Semangat Magazine Volume 29, 19, and 20 from May until July 2018 which contains Possessive Constructions in Javanese also informant who is a native speaker of Javanese. The data are analyzed using Simak Method, with base Sadap technic and advance Simak-Bebas libat cakap technic and Catat technic, meanwhile technic for analyz

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Fatah, Azad Hasan, and Ari Ezzat Aghal. "Possessive Constructions in Central Kurdish: A Cognitive Grammar Account." Journal of University of Human Development 8, no. 3 (2022): 156–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v8n3y2022.pp156-167.

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This paper seeks to study possessive constructions in CK henceforth from the cognitive grammar perspective. One of the tenets of construal theory is that the speakers of a language deploy alternate constructions to express different conceptual contents. To do so, the humans use construal mechanism to portray and interpret a certain scene from their perspectives. To achieve the objective of the present paper, we apply reference point model, Construal and Figure and ground theories to CK possessive constructions. Possessive constructions are relational structures established by human mental abil

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Fatah, Azad Hasan, and Ari Ezzat Aghal. "Possessive Constructions in Central Kurdish: A Cognitive Grammar Account." Journal of University of Human Development 8, no. 3 (2022): 156–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v8n3y2022.pp156-166.

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This paper seeks to study possessive constructions in CK henceforth from the cognitive grammar perspective. One of the tenets of construal theory is that the speakers of a language deploy alternate constructions to express different conceptual contents. To do so, the humans use construal mechanism to portray and interpret a certain scene from their perspectives. To achieve the objective of the present paper, we apply reference point model, Construal and Figure and ground theories to CK possessive constructions. Possessive constructions are relational structures established by human mental abil

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Ron’ko, Roman V. "POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PRONOUNS IN SHUGHNI." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 5 (2022): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-5-48-66.

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The paper describes possessive constructions with pronouns in Shughni. In this language, possessor can be expressed by personal and demonstrative pronouns, pronouns with the locative postposition and, and constructions including both a standard pronoun and a pronoun marked with a locative marker. I compare these construction types, analyze types of semantic relations between the possessor and the possessee. Besides that, two syntactic types of possessive constructions are distinguished and their syntactic features are described.

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Perangin Angin, Dalan Mehuli. "TWO ATTRIBUTIVE POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN PAGU: THE DOUBLE AND SINGLE MARKING." Linguistik Indonesia 42, no. 2 (2024): 325–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v42i2.628.

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This paper discusses two different attributive possessive constructions in Pagu, a West Papuan language spoken in Halmahera. They can be categorized into double and single marking. Semantically, the former construction allows only human possessor, while the latter both non-human and human – with a restricted use for human on the core kinship relations only. The paper also discusses the definiteness of the possessor or possessee in each construction, which I argue result from the familiarity of both the possessor-possessee after being introduced in the discourse. It also allows either the posse

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Ozolinya, L. V. "Complicating adverbials in the Orok sentence: structure and semantics." Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, no. 45 (2023): 26–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2312-6337-2023-1-26-38.

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Complicating adverbials are represented in the Orok language by non-predicative possessive constructions, verbal nouns of “complex semantics.” As a universal semantic category for expressing attributive relations between names, possessiveness has specific expression mechanisms in each language. In the Tungus-Manchu languages, possessiveness is formalized by attributive possessive constructions. Traditionally, semantic relations between the components of a possessive construction are implemented at the level of a two-term structure, with the first component being the name-possessor and the seco

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Jacinto, Joana. "A conceptualização da posse e da existência em português: subsídios para a conceptualização dos desenvolvimentos diacrónicos das construções com haver e ter." Revista Portuguesa de Humanidades 28, no. 1-2 (2024): 111–42. https://doi.org/10.17990/rph/2024_28_1_111.

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This paper develops an analysis of the historical development of the possessive and existential constructions in Portuguese from a Cognitive Grammar perspective, as the outcome of a metonymical mapping which has taken place in the conceptual space shared by possessive, locative and existential constructions. Moreover, we demonstrate that the shift from possession to existence can be ascribed to two different types of construals: 1) reification in the possessive domain and 2) active-zone activation in the existential domain. Thus we claim that possessive constructions with haver correspond to a

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Vydrin, Valentin. "Genitival constructions in Eastern Dan." Language in Africa 3, no. 2 (2022): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2022-3-2-159-180.

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In Eastern Dan (< Southern Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), the common Mande strategies of marking genitival relations are available, namely head-marking by means of tone, and dependent-marking (by a specialized postposition) in the alienable possession construction. However, against this common background, some important modifications have evolved. The opposition between the head-marked and the head-unmarked constructions, although retained, has become semantically blurred: in the proto-language, the head-marked genitival construction had the semantics of “modification-by-noun”, while i

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Gusev, Valentin. "Constructions with a Nominative possessor in the Nganasan language." Rodnoy Yazyk. Linguistic journal, no. 2 (December 2022): 67–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2313-5816-2022-2-67-88.

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This paper deals with head-marked nominal possessors in Nganasan, i. e., constructions with the possessor in the Nominative and possessive markers on the possessee. It is shown that this construction is only used when the possessor is topical and the possessee is in focus. All other combinations of topic/focus and possessor/possessee with a nominal possessor use the standard dependent-marking construction: the possessor stands in the Genitive and the possessee is unmarked.

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Anschutz, Arlea. "How to Choose a Possessive Noun Phrase Construction in Four Easy Steps." Studies in Language 21, no. 1 (1997): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.21.1.02ans.

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Why does an English speaker use an inflected possessive like 'The president's daughter" rather than a prepositional possessive like "The daughter of the president?" This question has intrigued linguists for decades. Traditional grammarians (see Curme 1947) defined and classified the relationships coded by each of the possessive forms. Transformational grammarians (see Jacobson 1968) wrote rules to transform deep structure of constructions into surface structure inflected noun phrases. Most recently, researchers (Quirk 1972, Hawkins 1981) have proposed that the use of the inflected construction

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Eguren, Luis. "Evaluative prenominal possessives in Spanish." Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/1.7.1.4254.

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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) are thoroughly described, and compared with those of canonical prenominal possessives. It is mainly proposed that evaluative possessives, in contrast to canonical prenominal possessives, are not base-generated as nominal modifiers and then raise to D0, but are directly merged (mostly) within the DP domain, thus capturing the fact that affective,

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Taylor, John R. "Possessives and topicality." Functions of Language 1, no. 1 (1994): 67–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.1.1.05tay.

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This paper deals with certain aspects of prenominal possessives (i.e. expressions of the kind John's wife, the city's destruction) in English. Consideration of the discourse function of the construction leads to the prediction that the possessor nominal will be high in topicality, whilst the possessee nominal will generally denote a highly non-topical entity. A number of text-based studies of the possessive confirm these predictions. It is then argued that the distribution of topicality within the construction offers a unified explanation of a range of grammaticality judgements.

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Saltovskaya, S. V. "Possessive and relative adjectives in the spiritual and contractual charters of the great and appanage princes in the 14<sup>th</sup>–15<sup>th</sup> centuries." Philology and Culture, no. 1 (April 6, 2024): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-75-1-28-32.

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In Old Russian, the meaning of belonging was expressed both by possessive and relative adjectives, which, at the same time, retained their lexical-grammar bonds with each other, the latter also expressed possessiveness. Based on the spiritual and contractual charters of the great and appanage princes in the 14th–15th centuries, the present paper is concerned with possessive and relative (formed from possessive) adjectives: it determines the functional correlation of possessive adjectives with the suffixes -ov-//-in- and relative adjectives, derived from the former with a complex of suffixes –o

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Siregar, Usmala Dewi, and Mulyadi Mulyadi. "Konstruksi Posesif Bahasa Inggris dalam Cerita Pendek There Will Come Soft Rains." CaLLs (Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics) 5, no. 1 (2019): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/calls.v5i1.1961.

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This study aims to describe the type of possessive construction and the possessive relationship between possessor/PR and possessum/PM in the possessive construction of English in short story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. The data were taken from sentences contained possessive construction in short story it. The data were collected by reading and noting and were analyzed by means of the distributional method to determine the type of possessive construction relationship and the correspondence method to determine the possessive relationships between the possessor and the possessed.

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Barrio de la Rosa, Florencio del. "Los «posesivos enfáticos» en dos sociolectos del español europeo." Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 138, no. 2 (2022): 422–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2022-0019.

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Abstract The «emphatic» possession has been traditionally related to American Spanish, specially, surfacing in language-contact situations. Taking this for granted, the present paper explores the sociolinguistic and dialectal distribution of this possessive construction in European Spanish and attempts to characterize it both semantically and syntactically. This paper analyzes over 20,000 tokens of possessive pronouns. Data are extracted from two corpus representative of the spoken varieties of urban and rural European Spanish. The analysis confirms the colloquial-familiar character of this sy

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Dincă, Daniela, and Ilona Bădescu. "Moyens d’expression de la possession inalienable dans les constructions verbales avec des noms de parties du corps (domaine français-roumain)." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 67, no. 4 (2022): 335–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.4.17.

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" Means of Expressing Inalienable Possession in Verb Structures with Body Part Nouns (French and Romanian). Departing from the verb structures with the possessive dative that express the inalienable possession between a noun that names body parts (Nbp) and its possessor in Romanian (Ro: I-a rupt gâtul. / Fr. Il lui a rompu le cou), we set out to establish a typology of verb structures consisting of two subclasses: (1) Verbs that place the possessor in the possessive dative and the Nbp in the accusative (direct object); (2) verbs that place the Nbp as an adverbial modifier and the possessor in

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GERNER, MATTHIAS. "The zoom-on-possessee construction in Kam (Dong): the anatomy of a new construction type." Journal of Linguistics 41, no. 2 (2005): 307–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226705003282.

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Kam, a Kadai language spoken in Guizhou province (People's Republic of China), has a family of intransitive possessive constructions with the word order ‘Possessor–Verb–Possessee’. (The basic word order in Kam is SV and AVO.) While two recent papers have featured this unique construction type for an array of other Southeast Asian languages, they fail to acknowledge its distinct semantic value in contrast to the related construction type ‘Possessee–Possessor–Verb’. The former construction type displays a so-called ‘zoom-effect’: the possessor is predicated IN, AT or THROUGH his/her/its possesse

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Lüpke, Friederike. "It’s a split, but is it unaccusativity?" Studies in Language 31, no. 3 (2007): 525–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.31.3.02lup.

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Jalonke, a Mande language of Guinea, exhibits a formal split of intransitive verbs with respect to the possessive construction in which they appear. Whenever the single argument of a nominalized intransitive verb is linked to the possessor of the nominalized verb, an inalienable possessive construction is used with some verbs, and an alienable possessive construction with others. The inalienable possessive construction is also used for nominalized transitive verbs when possessed by their object participants, while the alienable possessive construction is used for transitive verbs possessed by

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Song, Jae Jung. "Getting three out of two." Ditransitivity 14, no. 1 (2007): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.14.1.08son.

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This article examines the development of the three-participant construction from the two-participant construction in Oceanic languages. This development involves the use of possessive classifiers for recipient or beneficiary marking. Arguments will be put forward in support of the change as an instance of grammaticalization. The change has its origins in pragmatic inferencing: the possessor is construed as a recipient or a beneficiary. Moreover, the change from possession to reception or benefaction is regarded, in terms of reduced structural autonomy, as a shift from a less grammatical to a m

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Ghilzai, Shazia Akbar, and Ambreen Shahnaz. "Reference Point Model, Cue Validity and Possessive Constructions-An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar." iRASD Journal of Educational Research 5, no. 1 (2024): 67–74. https://doi.org/10.52131/jer.2024.v5i1.2522.

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Thirty participants from different L1 backgrounds (6 English, 6 German, 6 Japanese, 6 Chinese, 6 Greek) participated in production task. The experimenter used a set of sixteen pictures about possessive constructions which comprised of animate, inanimate, prototypical and non-prototypical stimuli for elicitation of possessive constructions in English language. The statistical analysis shows the significant effects of L1 and animacy. However, the effects of prototype were not significant. The factor animacy is dominant over other factors because the statistical results are only computed for the

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Wang, Yong, and Jie Xu. "A systemic typology of existential and possessive constructions." Functions of Language 20, no. 1 (2013): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.20.1.01wan.

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In this article, we examine locational constructions (including existentials, locatives, and possessives) in a number of languages. Morpho-syntactically, locationals resemble or are related to one another in word order, in case marking, and in the choice of verbs. In semantics, the relatedness lies in the definiteness effect, in the locative feature, and in the mutually defining relationship between the semantic elements within each construction. As is recognized by Heine (1997), Stassen (2001) and others, the existential is one of the major sources from which possessives are derived. Basicall

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Ahland, Michael. "From topic to subject." Studies in Language 33, no. 3 (2009): 685–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.33.3.06ahl.

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The predicative possessive construction in Amharic exhibits a mismatch in grammatical coding: the possessor receives object marking on the verb while the overt NP exhibits phenomena associated with nominative case in Amharic. This article investigates the mismatch in light of its historical development as attested in archaisms found in proverbs and old Biblical texts, examines both overt and covert syntactic properties of the possessor today, and also considers evidence from other related constructions. The possessive construction developed from the existential construction where the possessor

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Bayda, Viktor. "The Possessive Construction with Cuid 'Part'." Studia Celto-Slavica 8 (2018): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.54586/oaex3600.

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Irish makes special use of cuid ‘part’ in the pronominal possessor construction with plural and non-count nouns: e.g. mo chuid eolais ‘my knowledge’, lit. ‘my part of knowledge’. It is argued that cuid is a pseudopartitive marker that explicates the idea of amount of the possessum.

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Serdobolskaya, Natalia. "The syntactic position of genitive modifiers in Beserman Udmurt." Faits de Langues 54, no. 1 (2024): 143–65. https://doi.org/10.1163/19589514-54010007.

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Abstract The paper is focused on the syntactic properties of genitive modifiers in Beserman Udmurt. Apart from the canonical genitive construction with obligatory possessive marking, genitive preposed to the head and head-adjacent (not separated by higher constituents), Beserman allows the structures where the genitive is non-adjacent to the possessum, the possessive suffix is absent, and the possessed nominal may be replaced by an anaphoric pronoun or a question word. Following Edygarova (2010) and Usacheva & Arkhangelskiy (2016), I propose to analyze these constructions in terms of exter

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van Kampen, Jacqueline. "Dit is Laura-se (trui)." Linguistics in the Netherlands 40 (November 3, 2023): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.00084.van.

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Abstract Dutch children temporarily use a possessor se construction with proper/kinship names and pronouns, like dit is Laura-se/opa-se/hem-se jas (‘this is Laura’s/grandpa’s/his coat’). The se possessive is not available in standard Dutch, although examples of it are found on the internet. The se possessive is fully productive with all nouns in Afrikaans. In standard Dutch prenominal possessive constructions show a wide range of variations and restrictions. Dutch children avoid the complexity of the system, but what makes the children apply the se possessive in the first place? I will show th

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OLLOQUI-REDONDO, JAVIER, THORA TENBRINK, and ANOUSCHKA FOLTZ. "Effects of animacy and linguistic construction on the interpretation of spatial descriptions in English and Spanish." Language and Cognition 11, no. 02 (2019): 256–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.13.

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abstractThe languages of the world differ in their use of intrinsic, relative, and absolute reference frames to describe spatial relationships, but factors guiding reference frame choices are not yet well understood. This paper addresses the role of animacy and linguistic construction in reference frame choices in English and Spanish. During each trial of two experiments, adult participants saw a spatial scene along with a sentence describing the location of an object (locatum) relative to another object (relatum) that was animate or human(-like) to varying degrees. The scene presented two pos

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Long, Haiping. "On the Formation of Modern Chinese Pseudo-Possessive-Object Constructions." Studies in Language 42, no. 2 (2018): 297–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.16018.lon.

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Abstract Modern Chinese Pseudo-Possessive-Object Constructions (shortened as Modern Chinese PPO constructions; e.g. ta shuo le wo de haohua (他说了我的好话) ‘he has put in a good word for me’ and ta chi le wo de doufu (他吃了我的豆腐) ‘he has taken advantage of me’) are actually constructions displaying possessor-affectee syncretism. They derive from Early Modern Chinese Real-Possessive-Object constructions in bridging contexts, some examples being wo ye quande liewei daren de jiu (我也劝得列位大人的酒), ‘I also urged all the magistrates here to finish drinking your wine’ and shi nage zai jie wo de duan li (是那个在揭我的短哩

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Klint, Ryan David. ""Lexical and grammatical tone in possessive constructions in Mazatec of Mazatlán"." Signos Lingüísticos 01, no. 01 (2025): 47–74. https://doi.org/10.24275/sling.v1n1.03.

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This paper presents a phonetic description and a phonological analysis of possessive constructions in Mazatlán Mazatec. These constructions are formed with a pronominal enclitic that indicates the possessor and a noun phrase that represents the possessed element. It is observed that the tonal interaction at the boundary between the noun phrase and the enclitic differs from that found between independent words. It is proposed that this distinct tonal interaction results from underlying differences in the possessive construction compared to other aspects of phonology. This distinction allows for

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Ritchie, Sandy. "Agreement with the internal possessor in Chimane*." Studies in Language 41, no. 3 (2017): 660–716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.41.3.05rit.

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Abstract The paper examines a type of clausal construction in Chimane (or Tsimane’, unclassified, Bolivia) in which possessors which are apparently internal to patient- or recipient-like possessive phrases can control object agreement on the verb. Various aspects of the construction point to an analysis in which the internal possessor is doubled by an external representation or ‘proxy’ in the clause which mediates the agreement relation between the possessor and the verb. The construction bears some resemblance to external possessor constructions, albeit with the added complication that the po

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Zribi-Hertz, Anne. "Possessive Anaphora." Coherence and Anaphora 10 (January 1, 1996): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.10.07zri.

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Abstract. The starting point of this paper is the apparent semantic symmetry between English and French pairs of examples like The name Mary, uses is not hers,/The name Mary, uses is not her, own and Le nom que Mariei utilise n est pas a ellezLe nom que Mariez utilise n'est pas le sienz. I will argue that this first-glance equivalence is misleading. In English, the possessive complement of a copular construction is ambiguous between a narrowly "possessive" reading and an elliptical relational reading. The former translates into French as a + DP, and the latter as le mienltienlsien... In both l

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HOLLMANN, WILLEM, and ANNA SIEWIERSKA. "A construction grammar account of possessive constructions in Lancashire dialect: some advantages and challenges." English Language and Linguistics 11, no. 2 (2007): 407–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674307002304.

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This study investigates reduction of 1SG possessives in possessive–noun constructions in Lancashire dialect. On the basis of a corpus of twenty-six interviews we show that reduction patterns according to (in)alienability. This dialectal evidence runs counter to the normal assumption about English, i.e. that there is no such effect. Following work by Haspelmath (2006b) that reinterprets iconicity effects in terms of frequency, we proceed to show that frequency may indeed underlie alienability/iconicity in our data as well. Relative frequency seems more useful in capturing the correlation with r

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Ozolinja, Larisa V. "The possessive construction in the Orok language." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 3 (September 1, 2007): 149–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/20/19.

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Cho, Sae-Youn, and Han-Gyu Lee. "A New Nominal Possessive Construction in Korean." STUDIES IN HUMANITIES 83 (December 31, 2024): 179–96. https://doi.org/10.33252/sih.2024.12.83.179.

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Malchukov, Andrej L. "Typological Reflections on the Rise of Possessive Alienability Splits in Tungusic." International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 5, no. 2 (2023): 250–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25898833-20230047.

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Abstract In this brief discussion note I consider rise of (in)alienability splits in Tungusic languages in a typological perspective. I provide typological arguments for the diachronic scenario (originally due to Sunik 1947), in which the interrogative pronoun ƞüi ‘who’ developed nominalizing and deictic function, subsequently giving rise to free possessive construction, on the one hand, and the alienability marker, on the other hand. It is shown that the proposed, typologically informed scenario can successfully account for peculiarities of the inalienable possession and related possessive ma

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Gafter, Roey J. "The Distribution of the Hebrew Possessive Dative Construction: Guided by Unaccusativity or Prominence?" Linguistic Inquiry 45, no. 3 (2014): 482–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00164.

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This article challenges the empirical generalization that the possessed element in the Hebrew possessive dative (PD) construction cannot be an external argument ( Borer and Grodzinsky 1986 ), a generalization that has been leveraged in the use of the PD construction as an unaccusativity diagnostic. An acceptability judgment experiment shows that the PD construction is dispreferred when the possessor is less prominent than the possessee on the animacy or definiteness scale; however, it shows no effect of unaccusativity, raising serious doubts regarding the construction’s validity as an unaccusa

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Лариса Викторовна, Озолиня. "О некоторых стратегиях выражения атрибутивности в орокском языке". Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology, № 4(46) (15 листопада 2024): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/2307-6119-2024-4-92-99.

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В статье рассматриваются варианты стратегий выражения атрибутивных отношений в языках различной типологии как способы реализации национального коммуникативного поведения и отражение семантико-синтаксических особенностей тунгусо-маньчжурских языков. В тунгусо-маньчжурских языках, где класс имен прилагательных достаточно скуден, атрибутивная семантика реализуется морфосинтаксическими средствами: собственно атрибутивными, посессивными конструкциями и конструкциями обладания. Для выражения отрицательных атрибутивных значений в тунгусо-маньчжурских языках используются конструкции необладания, оформ

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Romero Cambrón, Ángeles. "La expansión del posesivo pospuesto a la luz de documentación navarra (y aragonesa) del siglo XIII." SCRIPTA. Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna 7, no. 7 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/scripta.7.8440.

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Resumen: En los primitivos documentos romances el posesivo sólo aparece antepuesto al sustantivo (“(el) nuestro padre”). La posposición (“padre nuestro”) se empieza a registrar en el siglo XIII en aragonés y en dialecto navarro. Considerando principalmente la documentación de esta segunda variedad, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar el modo en que el posesivo adquirió la capacidad de aparecer pospuesto. Este cambio se vio impulsado por factores de naturaleza estructural. Uno de ellos es la existencia de la construcción posesiva con de y pronombre personal (“por raçón de mí”); o

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Nevskaya, I. A., and O. A. Shalamay. "King of Kings and Song of Songs: An Elative-Superlative Construction in Turkic Languages." Philology 17, no. 9 (2018): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2018-17-9-9-21.

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The article describes superlative, hyperlative and elative use of formally possessive constructions in a number of Turkic languages from a comparative perspective, analyzing their structural and semantic types as well as their pragmatic properties. Similar non-canonical possessive constructions are found all over Eurasia in languages belonging to various language families. One of the most unclear issues of such constructions is their origin. They could have emerged spontaneously in Turkic languages due to the inner stimuli of language development: a. From possessive reading of possessive const

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Cornilescu, Alexandra. "Revisiting a Romanian “friend of mine”." Revue roumaine de linguistique 2024, no. 3-4 (2024): 365–81. https://doi.org/10.59277/rrl.2024.3-4.20.

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The paper tackles two Romanian partitive constructions that feature partitive DE “of”, one of which is a true partitive (un prieten de-ai mei/ a friend DE-AL.M.PL mine/ ‘a friend of mine’), while the other is a possessive partitive (un prieten de-al meu / a friend DE-AL.M.SG mine / ‘a friend of mine’). Since it has often been claimed that Romanian lacks the partitive construction, in the sense that Romanian does not use the preposition DE in the partitive construction, the first aim of the paper is that of suggesting a possible explanation for the loss of DE in the proper/standard partitive co

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Janda, Laura A., and Lene Antonsen. "The ongoing eclipse of possessive suffixes in North Saami." Diachronica 33, no. 3 (2016): 330–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.33.3.02jan.

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North Saami is replacing the use of possessive suffixes on nouns with a morphologically simpler analytic construction. Our data (>2K examples culled from >.5M words) track this change through three generations, covering parameters of semantics, syntax and geography. Intense contact pressure on this minority language probably promotes morphological simplification, yielding an advantage for the innovative construction. The innovative construction is additionally advantaged because it has a wider syntactic and semantic range and is indispensable, whereas its competitor can always be replace

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Benvenuto, Maria Carmela, and Flavia Pompeo. "Verbal Semantics in Ancient Greek Possessive Constructions with eînai." Journal of Greek Linguistics 15, no. 1 (2015): 3–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01501004.

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The aim of this paper is to investigate ‘eînai (‘be’) plus dative’ and ‘eînai plus genitive’ possessive constructions, paying special attention to the semantic content of the verb eînai in order to identify the function and the distribution of the various combinatorial patterns of the constructions in question, and the precise role of the verbal items. In particular, the present analysis, carried out within the framework of Construction Grammar, will attempt to demonstrate that each possessive variant constitutes a semantically and pragmatically distinct pattern where the semantic content of t

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Rooryck, Johan, and Erik Schoorlemmer. "Consanguinity and Possession in Varieties of Dutch." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29, no. 1 (2017): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542716000258.

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Southern varieties of Dutch use the 1st person plural form of the possessive pronounonsas a marker of consanguinity with proper names, as inons Emma‘Emma, our consanguineous family member’. This use ofons‘our’ has some remarkable properties: It is incompatible with adjectival modification and contrastive stress. These properties are shared with a construction from Standard Dutch: complex prenominals-possessors consisting of the 1st person singular form of the possessive pronoun and a kinship term as inmijn vaders fiets‘my father's bike’. We propose that both these constructions are constructio

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