[Lingtyp] Article Poss N cooccurrence and person splits?

[Broadwell,George Aaron]

Typologists:


We know that in some languages the pronominal possessor ('my, your', etc.) is in complementary distribution with the article ('the', 'a'). So English is *the my book.

In other languages the article and pronominal possessor can cooccur, e.g. Italian la mia automobile '(the) my car'.

Does anyone know a language where Art + Poss is normal for the 3rd person possessor ('the his book'), but ungrammatical for other persons? (I.e. *the your book, *the my book vs. OK the his book).


I seem to have found this pattern in Timucua, but I would appreciate references to any other language with this pattern:


atichicolo-mi-ma  'his heart'  (rarely atichicolo-mi, without the definite suffix)

heart-3Poss-def


atichicolo-ye  'your heart'  (unattested atichicolo-ye-ma)

heart-2Poss


atichicolo-na 'my heart'  (unattested atichicolo-na-ma)

heart-1Poss


Thanks,

Aaron Broadwell


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