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Dear Laura, </div>
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See attached on Dalabon (Gunwinyguan, NPN, Australia), and a draft chapter from Bowern's Handbook of Australian languages, on the typology of possessive constructions in Australian languages, where this question features prominently. </div>
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<i>Australian Journal of Linguistics</i> 35(1). doi:10.1080/07268602.2015.976900.</span></p>
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Kind regards and all the best with your research, Maïa</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Differential inalienable marking</font>
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<div>I’m investigating a feature that I’m calling ‘differential inalienable marking’. Differential inalienable marking is found in some languages with a morphosyntactic alienability distinction in adnominal possessive constructions. In ‘inalienable’ constructions
(i.e., those constructions that are more closely associated with expressing inalienable relationships between the possessor and possessee, such as body parts and kin terms), these languages make a further morphological or morphosyntactic distinction – for
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<div>This distinction may be semantically conditioned – for example, kin terms may be marked with one paradigm, body parts another. Below is an example from Ambai (Austronesian), in which a 3sg possessor is predictably marked on kin terms with the suffix
<i>-na</i>, and on body parts with <i>-n</i>.<br>
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<div>(1) Ambai (Silzer 1983: 88-9)</div>
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<div>(a) ina<b style="color:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-size:inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; background-color:">-na</b></div>
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<div>(b) awe<b>-n</b></div>
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<div>Alternatively, the distinction may be lexically specified. In Kula (Timor-Alor-Pantar), the possessor is marked on most body parts and kin terms with one paradigm; however, there is a subset of body parts which are unpredictably marked with a different
paradigm. This is exemplified in (2): a 1st person exclusive possessor is marked on the body part
<i>nikwa</i> ‘eye’ with the prefix <i>ng-</i>, but on the body part <i>kárik</i> ‘finger’ with
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<div>(2) Kula (Williams 2017: 226)<br>
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<div>(b) <b>nge-</b>kárik </div>
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<div>Note that I am <b>not </b>counting either phonologically predictable allomorphy or free variation as differential inalienable marking.
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<div>This feature is attested in several languages spoken in east Indonesia. Has anyone come across differential inalienable marking elsewhere in the world? (As you can see from the examples, the distinction may be very subtle…)<br>
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<div>With best wishes from Edinburgh,<br>
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<div>Laura<br>
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