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Joshdoeslinguistics Josh Lester
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I talk about really boring linguistic things. Trust me — you don’t care
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Josh Does Linguistics - Inalienable vs Alienable
In linguistics inalienable and alienable possession refers to how language deals with noun possession 😎. I refer you to Haspelmath’s paper on alienable vs. inalienable possessive constructions. Syntactic universals and usage frequency if you’d like to see a rich amount of examples!