‘Alienable’ Possession in Biakic

Alienable-Inalienable Asymmetry in Japanese and Korean Possession

Processing (In)alienable Possessions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

1. Introduction Possessive relations are fundamental in linguistic descriptions. The alienability between a possessum and its possessor, in particular, has received much attention in the literature (see Antrim, 1996 and a recent collection by Coene & D'hulst, 2003, for reviews). The issue of alienability concerns whether a nominal entity holds an intrinsic relation with its possessor. Such a re...

Possession and morality in early development.

From the moment children say "mine!" by two years of age, objects of possession change progressively from being experienced as primarily unalienable property (i.e., something that is absolute or nonnegotiable), to being alienable (i.e., something that is negotiable in reciprocal exchanges). As possession begins to be experienced as alienable, the child enters "moral space," a socially normative...

Heads in Oceanic indirect possession

The other, termed ‘indirect possession’, involves agreement marking of one of a small closed set of forms that precede the possessum noun. Many Oceanic languages have exactly two indirect host forms in this closed set. In these languages the forms always function to distinguish items intended for consumption (as in (2)b.) from a residual category of general possessions (as in (2)a.), as is the ...

Individual ball possession in soccer

This paper describes models for detecting individual and team ball possession in soccer based on position data. The types of ball possession are classified as Individual Ball Possession (IBC), Individual Ball Action (IBA), Individual Ball Control (IBC), Team Ball Possession (TBP), Team Ball Control (TBC) und Team Playmaking (TPM) according to different starting points and endpoints and the type...