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The Language of Inalienable Possession
The language distinguishes inalienable from alienable possession, which is very common in human languages. Inalienable possession is managed by prefixes. Alienable possession uses the same grammar particle that is used for noun attribution to link adjectives and adverbs. That's an interesting multi feature use of that particle that I thought was pretty neat. Can I put back, since we sort of, we mentioned color before the show, but we didn't really, but we then we just sort of referred to it and then mentioned it. It's basically it's the there was the she put it in the dragons have actually a they can see into infrared and ultraviolet.