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<p><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We know that in some languages the pronominal possessor ('my, your', etc.) is in complementary distribution with the article
('the', 'a'). So English is *the my book.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In other languages the article and pronominal possessor can cooccur, e.g. Italian la mia automobile '(the) my car'.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><br style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does anyone know a language where Art + Poss is normal for the 3rd person possessor ('the his book'), but ungrammatical for
other persons? (I.e. *the your book, *the my book vs. OK the his book)</span>.<br>
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<p>I seem to have found this pattern in Timucua, but I would appreciate references to any other language with this pattern:<br>
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<p>atichicolo-mi-ma 'his heart' (rarely atichicolo-mi, without the definite suffix)<br>
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<p>heart-3Poss-def<br>
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<p>atichicolo-ye 'your heart' (unattested atichicolo-ye-ma)<br>
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<p>heart-2Poss<br>
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<p>atichicolo-na 'my heart' (unattested atichicolo-na-ma)<br>
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<p>heart-1Poss<br>
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<p>Aaron Broadwell<br>
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