Categorizing possession in Zuanga-Yuanga and other Kanak languages (New Caledonia): a typological perspective
Like many other Oceanic and Kanak languages of New Caledonia, Zuanga-Yuanga [ZY] has classifiers restricted to the possession of nouns denoting food, drink, animals and plants; it also has dichotomous direct and indirect adnominal possessive constructions, which are generally labeled inalienable or...
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De Gruyter
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0035 |