Small clarification

[Dan Everett]

Doris Payne writes:
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"In Maasai "external possessor" constructions (what some would call 
Possessor raising/ascension), the Possessor IS expressed as the 
grammatical object.  In one dialect the Possessed item can be any 
intransitive subject, transitive subject, or transitive (erstwhile?) 
object.  In another dialect, the Possessed item can be the (erstwhile?) 
transitive object or unaccusative subject.  In yet another dialect, the 
Possessed item can only be the (erstwhile?) object and only a body part.  
In all cases, though, the possessor is expressed as the grammatical 
object, marked by verb prefixes."

Doris Payne

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It is pretty common for possessor ascension structures to result in
possessor as direct object. It is the fact that the possessor (which
behaves as topic while the possessed N acts like the subject) is in no
way dislocated from its possessor, in what looks like an otherwise run
of the mill NP in subject position, which gives the Arawan structure
its special appeal. So my question is whether in the Maasai structures
the possessor is dislocated from its possessed NP. If so, then it is not
so strange. In many languages dislocated possessors act quite unlike 
English. Romance languages are some of the most interesting.

-- Dan