Beyond alienability: factors determining possessive classes in Piaroa
This article focuses on possession marking in Piaroa, a Jodï-Sáliban language spoken along the Middle Orinoco River on the Venezuelan-Colombian border. Based on a corpus of first-hand fieldwork data and building on previous descriptions of Piaroa possession, I show that Piaroa nouns can be divided i...
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| Language: | English |
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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-2022-0017 |