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:cogo guok :bone dog :'the dog's bone' (which it is eating) The following is however an example of inalienable possession, the bone being part of the cow: :cok dhiang' :bone ( Construct State ) cow :'a cow bone'A. N. Tucker ''A Grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo)'' 1984:198 What counts as inalineable possession varies from one language to another. It may be used for family relationships, body parts, and authorship, among other things. It is therefore often impossible to say that a particular relationship is an example of inalienable possession without specifying the languages for which that holds true. Both inalienable possession and alienable possession fall under a broader Possessive category in most languages, including English , Latin , and Arabic , where this distinction is not marked, and therefore not referred to. Marking the distinction is much rarer than ignoring it. ally defined category, inalienability is more likely to constitute a Morpho-syntactic or Morphophonological entity, one that owes its existence to the fact that certain nouns happened to be left out when a new pattern for marking attributive possession arose."Bernd Heine ''Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization''. 1997:182. REFERENCES |
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