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In:Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia:
Edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya
[Studies in Language Companion Series 206] 2019
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Predicative possession in South Saami

 | University of Turku
 | University of Uppsala
Published online: 5 March 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.206.06ina
In this paper, we analyse and describe the HAVE-constructions in South Saami (Saamic, Uralic), from a comparative perspective with other Saamic and Uralic languages. The Saamic languages can be divided into three subgroups: in the first, HAVE is expressed with a verb meaning ‘to be’; the second has a HAVE-construction based on a verb ‘to have’ and one on the verb ‘to be’. The third subgroup comprises only of South Saami, which has three HAVE-constructions, one based on the verb ‘to have’ and two on the verb ‘to be’. South Saami is also unique among Saamic languages in that it has a HAVE-construction based on the verb ‘to be’ where the possessor in the genitive.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The HAVE-construction – three types of possessive clauses
    • 2.1U-possessive clause (‘A has B’)
    • 2.2 gen-possessive clause (‘A’s is B’)
    • 2.3ine-possessive clause (‘In A is B’)
  • 3.The relations between the three HAVE-construction types
  • 4.The BELONG-construction and the semantic equivalent to the verb ‘to own’
  • 5.South Saami predicative possession
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Primary sources
  • References
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