<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Zahra,<div><br></div><div>It is maybe not what you are looking for, but in Japhug, the possessive prefixes on the participle of an adjectival verb can be used to express a superlative meaning, as in the following example. </div><div><br></div><div><div>[pɣa tʰamtɕɤt ɣɯ nɯ-kɯ-mpɕɤr] nɯ rmɤβja ɲɯ-ŋu.</div><div>bird all gen 3pl.poss-sbj:pcp-be.beautiful dem peacock sens-be</div></div><div>'The most beautiful of all birds is the peacock.'</div><div>(ex 82, p. 1451 of the Japhug grammar, <a href="https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295">A grammar of Japhug | Language Science Press (langsci-press.org)</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Although it can be viewed as a special type of possessive construction (literally "The beautiful one of/among the birds"), I thought that was nevertheless distinct enough from usual possessive constructions to be interesting to your query, and perhaps relatable to the "emphatic" function of possessive prefixes you mention.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I actually wonder if this is a crosslinguistically widespread way of expressing superlative.</div><div><br></div><div>Guillaume</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 16 juil. 2024 à 14:53, Zahra Etebari Shekarsaraei via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5378427728675741562">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Definiteness<u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:106%">Kútip turǵan <b>adamı</b> kelmedi. [Karakalpak]<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
<p class="m_-5378427728675741562MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:106%">The person</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:106%"> he/she has been waiting for did not come.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="m_-5378427728675741562MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:106%">(Utepovich 2023: 80)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Contrast<u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Ulizy-vylizy kyk bratjos,
<b>pokći-ez</b> [Udmurt]<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> lived-were.3SG two brothers
<b>younger.brother-3SG</b><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> kuaner,
<b>byȝym-ez</b> uzyr.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Poor
<b>older.brother-3SG</b> rich<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> There lived two brothers, the younger one was poor, the older one was rich.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> (Serebrennikov 1963: 133)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">So far, I have collected cases from over 60 language varieties spanning
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">U</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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:12pt">If you have encountered similar uses in a language you work on or i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Many thanks for your time!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Zahra<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">References:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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:12pt;color:black;background:white">Izdateľstvo AN SSSR</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Zahra Etebari<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Uppsala University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Guillaume Jacques</div><div><br></div><div>Directeur de recherches<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - EPHE- INALCO <br></div><div><a href="https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1XCp2-oAAAAJ&hl=fr" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=1XCp2-oAAAAJ&hl=fr</a><br></div><div><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295</a></div><div><div><a href="http://panchr.hypotheses.org/" target="_blank">http://panchr.hypotheses.org/</a></div></div></div></div>