<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
On 13.12.17 13:46, Sergey Lyosov wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:1513169162.305194775@f479.i.mail.ru"
type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
Dear colleagues,
<p class="MsoNormal">would you suggest me a good
reference/overview on the (in)alienable possession as a feature
of possessive noun phrases?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sergey</p>
</blockquote>
<br>
It seems to me that the following paper (paywalled, but available
from sci-hub.tw) is still the best overview of adpossessive
constructions (though it deals only with European languages):<br>
<br>
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2002. Adnominal possession in the European
languages: Form and function. <i>STUF - Language Typology and
Universals</i> 55(2). 141–172. DOI: 10.1524/stuf.2002.55.2.141.<br>
<br>
§5 deals with alienable/inalienable contrasts.<br>
<br>
A more recent (not paywalled) paper that has examples of the two
types of construction types from around the world and some
discussion of the concepts is the following:<br>
<br>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<div class="csl-bib-body" style="line-height: 1.35; padding-left:
2em; text-indent:-2em;">
<div class="csl-entry">Haspelmath, Martin. 2017. Explaining
alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions:
Predictability vs. iconicity. <i>Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissenschaft</i> 36(2). 193–231.
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2017-0009<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfsw.2017.36.issue-2/zfs-2017-0009/zfs-2017-0009.xml">https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfsw.2017.36.issue-2/zfs-2017-0009/zfs-2017-0009.xml</a><br>
</div>
<span class="Z3988"
title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Explaining%20alienability%20contrasts%20in%20adpossessive%20constructions%3A%20Predictability%20vs.%20iconicity&rft.jtitle=Zeitschrift%20f%C3%BCr%20Sprachwissenschaft&rft.volume=36&rft.issue=2&rft.aufirst=Martin&rft.aulast=Haspelmath&rft.au=Martin%20Haspelmath&rft.date=2017&rft.pages=193-231&rft.spage=193&rft.epage=231"></span>
<div class="csl-entry"><br>
</div>
<span class="Z3988"
title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1524%2Fstuf.2002.55.2.141&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Adnominal%20possession%20in%20the%20European%20languages%3A%20form%20and%20function&rft.jtitle=STUF%20-%20Language%20Typology%20and%20Universals&rft.volume=55&rft.issue=2&rft.aufirst=Maria&rft.aulast=Koptjevskaja-Tamm&rft.au=Maria%20Koptjevskaja-Tamm&rft.date=2002&rft.pages=141%E2%80%93172&rft.issn=2196-7148"></span></div>
However, it is not primarily an overview, but argues for a
predictability-based explanation of the observed universal
tendencies.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Martin
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10
D-07745 Jena
&
Leipzig University
IPF 141199
Nikolaistrasse 6-10
D-04109 Leipzig
</pre>
</body>
</html>