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Possession

Index of SIL publications on Possession listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Possession available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• BARSHI, Immanuel; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1999. "External possession: what, where, how, and why."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 2003. Review of: Dimensions of possession by Irene Baron, Michael Herslund and Finn Sørensen, editors.
• PIERPONT, William G., author. 1986. "Studies in word order: Personal pronoun possessives in nominal phrases in the New Testament."
• XIE, Chaoquin, author. 2001. Review of: Possessives in English: an exploration in cognitive grammar, by John R. Taylor.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ethiopia

• AHLAND, Michael Bryan, author. 2009. "From topic to subject: grammatical change in the Amharic possessive construction."
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1991. "Possessive markers in Surmic languages."

Ghana

• NADEN, Anthony J., author. 1982. "Existence and possession in Bisa."

Kenya

• BARSHI, Immanuel; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1996. "The interpretation of "possessor raising" in a Maasai dialect."
• BARSHI, Immanuel; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1998. "Argument structure and Maasai possessive interpretation: implications for language learning."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1997. "Argument structure and locus of affect in the Maasai external possession construction."
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1997. "The Maasai external possessor construction."

Sudan

• STIRTZ, Timothy M., author. 2006. "Possession of alienable and inalienable nouns in Gaahmg."

Americas

Brazil

• EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1988. Anaphoric indices and inalienable possession in Brazilian Portuguese.
• RICHARDS, Joan, author. 1973. "Dificuldades na análise da possessão nominal na língua waurá."  

Canada

• CREIGHTON, E.; FRANTZ, Donald G., authors. 1982. "The indefinite possessor prefix in Blackfoot."

Mexico

• CAPEN, Carole Jamieson; GARDNER, Richard, authors. 1976. Another look at noun possession in Quiotepec Chinantec.  
• LEAL, Mary; LEAL, Otis, authors. 1954. "Noun possession in Villa Alta Zapotec."
• MARLETT, Stephen A.; MOSER, Mary B., authors. 1994. Vowel length in Seri possessed nouns.
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1980. Ethical dative and possessor omission sí, possessor ascension no!.
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1985. "Imagic meaning and dative possessors in Spanish."

Peru

• WEBER, David J., author. 1976. Los sufijos posesivos en el quechua del Huallaga (Huánuco).  

United States

• PINSON, Thomas M., author. 1990. Possessor ascension in Dakota Sioux.

Asia

Indonesia

• LAIDIG, Wyn D., author. 1993. "Insights from Larike possessive constructions."
• MEAD, David, author. 2006. "When to use a genitive pronoun in Mori Bawah (Sulawesi, Indonesia)."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• HAINSWORTH, C. Joan, author. 1972. "Narak noun possession and morphophonemic rules."
• LOVING, Aretta, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1965. Possessive prefixes which occur with obligatorily possessed Awa nouns.  
• LOVING, Aretta; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1973. "Possessive prefixes occurring with inalienable Awa nouns."
• OLSON, Michael L., author. 1979. "The sociolinguistic significance of Barai possessive markers."