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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">I am preparing a dataset for development of discourse functions in possessive/personal markers cross-linguistically. I am particularly interested in constructions (relevant examples below) where
a possessive/personal marker is used not to convey possession or refer to another item, but to denote functions such as definiteness, topicality, emphasis or contrast.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Definiteness<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Kútip turǵan <b>adamı</b> kelmedi. [Karakalpak]<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The person</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"> he/she has been waiting for did not come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">(Utepovich 2023: 80)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Contrast<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Ulizy-vylizy kyk bratjos,
<b>pokći-ez</b> [Udmurt]<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> lived-were.3SG two brothers
<b>younger.brother-3SG</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> kuaner,
<b>byȝym-ez</b> uzyr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> Poor
<b>older.brother-3SG</b> rich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> There lived two brothers, the younger one was poor, the older one was rich.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> (Serebrennikov 1963: 133)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">So far, I have collected cases from over 60 language varieties spanning
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">U</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">ralic (Ugric, Permic, Mari, Mordvin, Samoyed), Altaic (Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolic), Indo-European (Iranic), Afro-Asiatic (Semitic), and Austronesian (Javanese,
Malay) families. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">If you have encountered similar uses in a language you work on or i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">f you are aware of any lesser-known source on this topic, especially non-English
sources, I would be extremely grateful if you could share them with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Many thanks for your time!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Zahra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">References:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Serebrennikov, Boris A. 1963.
<i>Istoriceskaja Morfologija Permskix Jazykov</i> [Historical morphology of the Permic languages].
<span style="color:black">Moscow: </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Izdateľstvo AN SSSR</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Utepovich, Bekbergenov H. 2023. Semantic peculiarities of the possessive affixes in the Karakalpak language and their equivalents in English.
<i>Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies</i>. 10(2). 64-82.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:SV">Zahra Etebari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:SV">Postdoctoral researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:SV">Department of Linguistics and Philology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:SV">Uppsala University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:SV">75126 Uppsala, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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