[Lingtyp] Discourse functions of possessive markers

[Zahra Etebari Shekarsaraei]

Dear all,

Thank you to everyone who responded to my query, both publicly and privately. I am deeply grateful for the comments, information, and references you shared, and for the opportunity to connect with colleagues working on similar topics. It was particularly fascinating to learn about cases from new areas and families (Tibeto-Berman, Oceanic, Caucasian) and of course the curious case of YOUR. I will be in touch with my secondary questions.
Cheers,
Zahra


Zahra Etebari
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University
Thunbergsvägen 3H, Box 635
75126 Uppsala, Sweden

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Subject: [Lingtyp] Discourse functions of possessive markers

Dear all,

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.

Definiteness

  1.  Kútip turǵan adamı kelmedi.                                           [Karakalpak]

The person he/she has been waiting for did not come.

(Utepovich 2023: 80)


Contrast

  1.  Ulizy-vylizy                kyk                   bratjos,           pokći-ez                                  [Udmurt]
             lived-were.3SG        two                         brothers         younger.brother-3SG
             kuaner,                      byȝym-ez                                uzyr.
             Poor                           older.brother-3SG                         rich
             There lived two brothers, the younger one was poor, the older one was rich.
             (Serebrennikov 1963: 133)

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.

Many thanks for your time!


Best wishes,
Zahra


References:

Serebrennikov, Boris A. 1963. Istoriceskaja Morfologija Permskix Jazykov [Historical morphology of the Permic languages]. Moscow: Izdateľstvo AN SSSR.

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.



Zahra Etebari
Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University
Thunbergsvägen 3H, Box 635
75126 Uppsala, Sweden









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