inalienable possession

collocation in English

meanings of inalienableand possession

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inalienable
adjective
uk /ɪˈneɪ.li.ə.nə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈeɪ.li.ə.nə.bəl/
unable to ...
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possession
noun
uk /pəˈzeʃ.ən/ us /pəˈzeʃ.ən/
the fact that you have or ...
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Examples of inalienable possession

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A more detailed examination of inalienablepossession helps to reveal exactly what is missing.
Finally, each object was coded for whether it referred to something that could be considered an alienable or inalienablepossession.
The effect of inalienablepossession shows the highly abstract transfer of substrate features, raising questions about the modularity of grammar.
First, various scholars have looked at the structural strategies by which languages encode the conceptual difference between inalienablepossession and alienable possession.
Creating an inalienablepossession was crucial to the development of the entire system of exchange.
The relation between a basic relational noun and second argument is typically one of inalienablepossession (kinship or body part).
While my focus is on personhood, one could also relate inalienablepossession to ethno-linguistic identity more generally.
Inalienablepossession may be considered a discursive category as much as a grammatical one.
In inalienablepossession the bound person possessor is directly affixed to the possessed, in alienable possession the two are separated from each other by the additional suffix -ni.
Moreover, the last section showed how intentional states - those relations between subjects and objects - were couched in terms of various properties of the heart, a particular inalienablepossession.
However, possessors and thus recipients can be inanimate in certain instances of inalienable possession, as in give the house a coat of paint or give the page a number.
In a text about 330 clauses in length, there are about 68 such nouns, and of these nouns 32 belong to the grammatical category of inalienablepossession.
Indeed, if one examines inalienablepossession from the standpoint of discourse patterning instead of grammatical encoding, its cross-linguistic existence becomes more obvious and its cognitive relevance becomes more transparent.
Of the various manifestations of the iconicity of distance with regard to alienable and inalienable possession, only those involving person forms are of relevance to the current discussion.
Notice that while inalienablepossession departs from inalienable wealth in substantial ways, it nonetheless bears a family resemblance that is worth elaborating.
Technically this is called obligatory possession, but linguists often use the term "inalienablepossession" to mean this.
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In the particular case of inalienablepossession, there is considerable variation between languages.
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