Blevins suggests that inalienable possession was lost from Proto-Austronesian, presumably after epenthetic * q-was added to vowel-initial words.
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"Fia " is only used in this, irregular possessive form; it has no nominative on its own ( see inalienable possession ).
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There is a discrepancy between where the possessor appears syntactically in an inalienable possession construction and what its semantic relationship to the inalienable noun seems to be.
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Marcel Mauss first described inalienable possessions in the classic anthropological text called " The Gift : The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies ".
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In contrast, others have argued that although semantics does play a role in inalienable possession, it is not central to the syntactic class of case-derived possessives.
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It was also a suburbicarian bishopric since the 5th century, a historic principality of the Savelli family, and from 1699 to 1798 the inalienable possession of the Holy See.
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Nevertheless, with indirect objects that do not refer to the direct recipient of the action as well as the dative of inalienable possession, clitic doubling is most often mandatory:
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Even with an inalienable possession, it is possible to say " ne inan pal ne piltzin " ('the his-mother of the boy').
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Inalienable possession is a semantic notion, i . e ., largely dependent on the way a culture structures the world, while obligatory possession is a property of morphemes.
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"' Inalienable possessions "'( " immovable property " ) refers to a fundamental classification of property law that Henry Maine stated dates back to Roman times.
