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Obligatory Possessive Inflection
Language:
Paamese
Feature:
Obligatory Possessive Inflection
by
Balthasar Bickel
and
Johanna Nichols
Value:
Exists
Examples
Sentence igt-267:
ani ma-k
ani
coconut
ma-k
poss
.
pot
-1
sg
.
poss
'my green coconut' (speaker intends to drink the juice)
Sentence igt-268:
ani aa-k
ani
coconut
aa-k
poss
.ED-
1sg
.
poss
'my green coconut' (speaker intends to eat the meat)
Sentence igt-269:
ani sa-k
ani
coconut
sa-k
poss
.LEG-
1sg
.
poss
'my green coconut' (e.g. growing in speaker's plantation)
Sentence igt-270:
ani ona-k
ani
coconut
ona-k
poss
.MAN-
1sg
.
poss
'my green coconut' (speaker will use it as an implement, e.g. to flatten something)
References
Crowley 1982
cite
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