Add to ORKGMost Oceanic languages encode possession in two distinct ways, prototypically associated with inalienable and alienable relationships respectively. One, termed ‘direct possession ’ in the Oceanist literature, involves direct possessor agreement suffixation of the possessum noun, shown for Kokota (Palmer n.d.a., 2002, f.c.) in (1). (1) (ia) nene-gu (ara)2 ART.SG leg-1SG.PSSR I ‘my leg ’ (Kokota) The other, termed ‘indirect possession’, involves agreement marking of one of a small closed set of forms that precede the possessum noun. Many Oceanic languages have exactly two indirect host forms in this closed set. In these languages the forms always function to distinguish items intended for consumption (as in (2)b.) from a residual category of...
This study forms part of a research project on the description of French as spoken in Tahiti. Tahiti...
The goal of this thesis is to provide a syntactic analysis of the possessive constructions in NCN, ...
This paper is a new investigation into the lexical distinction between the parts of speech, noun and...
In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with...
In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with...
In many Oceanic languages the ‘indirect ’ possessive construction, which is typically associated wit...
Many non-Polynesian Oceanic languages are known to have two morphological strategies to express attr...
Possession in some Austronesian languages shows levels of elaboration far in excess of cross-linguis...
Indirect possessive hosts (IPHs) in Oceanic languages are normally described as relational classifie...
Referential kinship terms in Matukar Panau (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea) are obligatorily possessed. T...
Most Northwest Solomonic (NWS) languages employ possessor-indexing or former possessor-indexing morp...
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using ...
This talk investigates the direct (also inalienable) and indirect (also alienable) possession constr...
Tw o types of definiteness effects have long been recognized in natural language and extensively inv...
This paper discusses the range of structures used to code possession in the Central Moluccan languag...
This study forms part of a research project on the description of French as spoken in Tahiti. Tahiti...
The goal of this thesis is to provide a syntactic analysis of the possessive constructions in NCN, ...
This paper is a new investigation into the lexical distinction between the parts of speech, noun and...
In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with...
In many Oceanic languages the "indirect" possessive construction, which is typically associated with...
In many Oceanic languages the ‘indirect ’ possessive construction, which is typically associated wit...
Many non-Polynesian Oceanic languages are known to have two morphological strategies to express attr...
Possession in some Austronesian languages shows levels of elaboration far in excess of cross-linguis...
Indirect possessive hosts (IPHs) in Oceanic languages are normally described as relational classifie...
Referential kinship terms in Matukar Panau (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea) are obligatorily possessed. T...
Most Northwest Solomonic (NWS) languages employ possessor-indexing or former possessor-indexing morp...
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using ...
This talk investigates the direct (also inalienable) and indirect (also alienable) possession constr...
Tw o types of definiteness effects have long been recognized in natural language and extensively inv...
This paper discusses the range of structures used to code possession in the Central Moluccan languag...
This study forms part of a research project on the description of French as spoken in Tahiti. Tahiti...
The goal of this thesis is to provide a syntactic analysis of the possessive constructions in NCN, ...
This paper is a new investigation into the lexical distinction between the parts of speech, noun and...