Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Appositive possession in Ainu and around the Pacific (Bugaeva, Nichols & Bickel)
This week's paper was again submitted by u/PyrolatrousCoagulate and presents a survey of appositive possession in Ainu, a language isolate spoken on the northern Japanese island Hokkaido, as well as in several other languages around the pacific. This week's TyPoW is going to be less specific again; thus you'll be able to talk about the general functioning on possessive constructions in your language! Nevertheless, there are some prompts to guide you:
- How does possession work in your language?
- Is there dedicated morphology to mark possession on nouns?
- Are there semantic or pragmatic distinctions between different possessive constructions, if there are more than one?
- Is there an alienability (or an inherent/non-inherent, possessable/unpossessable) contrast?
- If you considered diachronics while creating your language, how did possessive constructions evolve?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!