[Lingtyp] Discourse functions of possessive markers

[Egor Kashkin]

Dear Zahra,

I'm not sure from the discussion of the Uralic data that your list of
references on Uralic is up-to-date enough.

I would suggest adding the following sources that elaborate on the
subject in a more detail than Nikolaeva or Serebrennikov do:

-- papers by Stepan Mikhailov on Kazym Khanty:
https://www.hse.ru/en/staff/sm#sci
-- article by Irina Khomchenkova on Hill Mari:
https://ural-altai.ru/userfiles/files/publications/Uralaltai-45-149-169.pdf
(see also her slides in English:
https://cloud.ruslang.ru/s/o2iKAPZcf33rF25)
-- article by Natalia Serdobolskaya et al. on Beserman Udmurt:
https://iling-ran.ru/usacheva/Usacheva_2019_en.pdf
-- monograph by Gwen Eva Janda
(https://monographs.ub.uni-koeln.de/map/catalog/book/17 ) and her
article on Northern Mansi:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290202214_Northern_Mansi_possessive_suffixes_in_non-possessive_function
-- article by Alexandra Simonenko on several Finno-Ugric languages:
https://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~alexandra.simonenko/Papers&Handouts_files/SimonenkoNELS43.pdf
(by the way she has more papers on possessives and determiners, which
could probably be interesting for you:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/0287CED4-6888-11E5-AD70-3415B5D1D7B1?limit=10&sort=year.desc&sort=datecreated.desc&start=0
)
-- I would also advise browsing publications by Katalin É. Kiss
(https://nytud.hu/en/colleague/katalin-e-kiss/publications ), some of
them deal with possessives and/or focus and may contain relevant
information

Best regards,
Egor Kashkin

вт, 16 июл. 2024 г. в 15:53, Zahra Etebari Shekarsaraei via Lingtyp
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> 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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> Kútip turǵan adamı kelmedi.                                           [Karakalpak]
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> The person he/she has been waiting for did not come.
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> Ulizy-vylizy                kyk                   bratjos,           pokći-ez                                  [Udmurt]
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>              lived-were.3SG        two                         brothers         younger.brother-3SG
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>              kuaner,                      byȝym-ez                                uzyr.
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>              Poor                           older.brother-3SG                         rich
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>              There lived two brothers, the younger one was poor, the older one was rich.
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> So far, I have collected cases from over 60 language varieties spanning Uralic (Ugric, Permic, Mari, Mordvin, Samoyed), Altaic (Turkic, Tungusic, Mongolic), Indo-European (Iranic), Afro-Asiatic (Semitic), and Austronesian (Javanese, Malay) families. If you have encountered similar uses in a language you work on or if 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.
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> Many thanks for your time!
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> Serebrennikov, Boris A. 1963. Istoriceskaja Morfologija Permskix Jazykov [Historical morphology of the Permic languages]. Moscow: Izdateľstvo AN SSSR.
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> Utepovich, Bekbergenov H. 2023. Semantic peculiarities of the possessive affixes in the Karakalpak language and their equivalents in English. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. 10(2). 64-82.
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> Zahra Etebari
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