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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
► pp. 169–186

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Predicative possession in North Saami and Norwegian

 | University of Cologne
Published online: 5 March 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.206.09maz
This paper describes the strategies employed by North Saami (Uralic, Saamic) and Norwegian (Indo-European, North Germanic) to express predicative possession. It shows that both North Saami and Norwegian do not provide evidence of splits in their possession systems; rather, they use the same constructions to express both ownership as well as less prototypical possessive notions, displaying a typical European behaviour. The expression of some notions contiguous to possession, namely experience, location and attribution is also analyzed: these are rarely coded by means of possessive constructions in Norwegian, but more often in North Saami.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A typological introduction to possession and possession split systems
  • 3.Predicative possession in North Saami and Norwegian
  • 4.Beyond possession: Attribution, experience and location
    • 4.1Attribution
    • 4.2Experience
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Primary sources
  • References
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North Saami
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Norwegian
OTC: Oslo Tagged Corpus of Norwegian Bokmål < [URL] >
English
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