[Lingtyp] head-initial double-marked possessives

[Eitan Grossman]

This type of construction is common in Semitic languages, although there is
a lot of variation in the extent to which such constructions are
productive/frequent in the various languages.

(Mishnaic) Hebrew  yad-o ʃel ʕani [hand-3sgm of poor.msg] 'the hand of a
poor man'

There are some nice glossed examples (the above one included) in an article
by Na'ama Pat-El, where she calls such constructions "proleptic genitive."
https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/6/2/article-p313_6.xml

If you are interested, this is a favorite topic of Semitists, and one could
track down rather a lot of literature.

Best,
Eitan


On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:56 PM Nestor Hernandez-Green <
nestorhgreen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even non-Amerindian Spanish in Central Mexico uses the construction "su
> papá de Sara [her dad of Sarah]". A large amount of mestizos in Mexico City
> use it, not to mention mestizos in other minor nearby cities/towns.
> Hope it helps.
> *= Néstor Hernández-Green =*
>
>
> El jue., 28 de feb. de 2019 a la(s) 08:19, Christian Lehmann (
> christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de) escribió:
>
>> Am 28.02.19 um 15:15 schrieb David Beck:
>>
>> Hi, everyone
>>
>> Does anyone have a clear example of a head-initial double-marked possessive construction, something along the lines of [father-her Sarah-of] 'Sarah’s father'? I need one last example of the 6 possible final/intial | head/dependant/double/no marked patterns for a slide in my typology class. I can’t seem to turn one up anywhere.
>>
>> Amerindian Spanish, e.g. Yucatec Spanish: su papá de Sara
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