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  • ...'' is a case of inalienable possession, while ''John has a blue car'' is a case of [[alienable possession]]. The notion of inalienable possession is also u
    734 bytes (110 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2009
  • ...n a hierarchical order. The order is as follows: demonstrative determiner, possessive noun, numeral or adverb of degree (Quantifier), adjective and/or participle ...ocusing on the inflection of the noun, the phenomenon of syncretism in the case of genitive singular and nominative plural in Skolt Saami is easily recogni
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  • ...two numbers and 9 cases (cf. the paradigm in Table \ref{noun}). Number and case marking is merged into portmanteau suffixes exhibiting a few syncretic form ...din Saami has also lost the possessive inflection of nouns. The historical possessive suffixes, mostly the 1st person singular, occur only in a few lexicalized k
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  • ...rabic language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically. ...), depending on the structure of the stem. An example is the [[superessive case|superessive]] suffix ''-ƛʼ(o)'', which attached to the word ''besuro'' (f
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