Explaining alienability splits in the use of overt and zero possessive marking: a source-oriented approach
A well-known pattern in the encoding of adnominal possession crosslinguistically involves splits in the use of overt and zero marking for alienable and inalienable possession. Overt marking may be restricted to alienable possession, but it is not usually restricted to inalienable possession. Zero ma...
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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-2022-0034 |