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Conlangery #24: Possession

Conlangery Podcast

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The Difference Between Tributeive Possession and Predicative Possession

Some languages make the distinction between alienable and inalienable even in the predicate situation. The number of languages that don't have a verb for have has always been surprising to me. In Navajo, you simply say the idiom I have a book is expressed with what means my book exists. Russian or some other Slavic languages do weird things differentiating a data from a genitive in possession.

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