Inalienability in North Saami

On the basis of corpus data (9.5M words 1997–2010) we claim that North Saami is developing a grammatical distinction between alienable and inalienable possession. In previous work we documented a language change in North Saami in which the possessive suffix as in girjji-id-easkka [book-acc.pl-3pl]...

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Main Authors: Lene Antonsen, Laura Janda
Format: Article
Language:Northern Sami
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2021-02-01
Series:Sámi dieđalaš áigečála
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SDA/article/view/6708
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