[Lingtyp] (in)alienable possession

[Kilu von Prince]

Sergey,

I'm going to shamelessly promote my (pre-zombie) Lingua paper, in
which I tried to give a typological and semantic overview of the
alienability distinction, as well as a case study of the phenomenon in
Daakaka:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384115001710

I'll send you the paper since it's not public access.

Best,
Kilu

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Martin Haspelmath
<haspelmath at shh.mpg.de> wrote:
> On 13.12.17 13:46, Sergey Lyosov wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> would you suggest me a good reference/overview on the (in)alienable
> possession as a feature of possessive noun phrases?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sergey
>
>
> It seems to me that the following paper (paywalled, but available from
> sci-hub.tw) is still the best overview of adpossessive constructions (though
> it deals only with European languages):
>
> Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2002. Adnominal possession in the European
> languages: Form and function. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 55(2).
> 141–172. DOI: 10.1524/stuf.2002.55.2.141.
>
> §5 deals with alienable/inalienable contrasts.
>
> A more recent (not paywalled) paper that has examples of the two types of
> construction types from around the world and some discussion of the concepts
> is the following:
>
> Haspelmath, Martin. 2017. Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive
> constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity. Zeitschrift für
> Sprachwissenschaft 36(2). 193–231. DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2017-0009
> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfsw.2017.36.issue-2/zfs-2017-0009/zfs-2017-0009.xml
>
> However, it is not primarily an overview, but argues for a
> predictability-based explanation of the observed universal tendencies.
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
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Dr. Kilu von Prince

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