Knowledge base · Part VII — Possession and the Affiliative System
47. External Possession and Possessor Raising
How does the language express the possessor of an inalienable noun as a core argument of the clause?
その言語では、譲渡不可能な名詞の所有者を節の主要項としてどのように表現するか？
Constructions in which the possessor of an (inalienable) noun is realized as a core clausal argument (en=…sik 'my eye'), and their relation to possessor-stranding noun incorporation.
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| Source | Citations | Without page | Statements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kobayashi 2025 | 16 | ||
| Bugaeva, Nichols & Bickel 2022 | 6 | ||
| Satō 2008 | 3 | 2 | |
| Nichols 1986 | 2 | 1 | |
| Satō 2016 | 2 | 2 | |
| Bugaeva 2010 | 2 | ||
| Kaiser 1998 | 2 | 1 | |
| Nakagawa 2024 | 1 | ||
| Bugaeva 2006 | 1 | ||
| Peterson 2007 | 1 | 1 | |
| Nam 2021 | 1 | ||
| Mithun 1984 | 1 | ||
| Hokkaidō Utari Kyōkai 1994 | 1 | ||
| Tamura 1996 | 1 |
Related chapters
- Index of Subjects ×7
- Index of Grammatical Morphemes and Affixes ×4
- The e- Applicative ×3
- The o- Applicative ×3
- The Alienable/Inalienable Split and Possessive Classification ×2
- Nominal Subclasses and Obligatorily-Possessed (Bound) Nouns ×1
- Concept Form vs. Affiliative (Possessed) Form ×1
- Subject Incorporation and Possessor-Stranding ×1
- Applicative Stacking, Ordering, and the Feeding of Relativization ×1
- The ko- Applicative ×1
- The Applicative System: Overview and the Preverb-vs-Applicative Debate ×1
- The Antipassive / Detransitive i- ×1
- Architecture of the Personal-Affix System: The Four Persons and the S/A/O Paradigms ×1
- Noun–Noun Compounding: Headedness, Linking, and Semantics ×1
- Relational and Spatial (Locative) Nouns and Their Possessed Forms ×1
- Synopsis of Lexical-Semantic Fields ×1
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Sections
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Overview 7 sentences
What construction allows a possessor to appear as a core argument rather than a modifier within the possessed noun phrase?
Body-part noun incorporation and possessor-to-subject raising 8 sentences· 2 examples
How does body-part noun incorporation cause the possessor to become the intransitive subject?
Natural-force noun incorporation and object-to-subject promotion 1 claims ·4 sentences· 2 examples
How does natural-force noun incorporation promote the base object to intransitive subject?
- In the clause ku-kamuypanakte 'God punishes me', the patient/undergoer ('me') is promoted to the subject prefix ku-.ku-kamuypanakte「神が私を罰する」において，患者／被動者（「私を」）が主語接頭辞 ku- に昇格している。asserts sato2008
- sato2008:390 asserts checked
Affiliative-type prefixes e- and o- 8 sentences
What do the affiliative-type prefixes e- and o- do to the verb's valence and possessor reference?
The applicative route to external possession 6 sentences
How do applicative prefixes promote a possessor to direct object position?
The antipassive i- as a possessor-suppressor 8 sentences· 2 examples
What morphological strategies suppress or omit the possessor of an obligatorily possessed noun?
Competing analyses 9 sentences
What competing analyses exist for the possessor-raising mechanisms in the language?