inalienable

Examples of alienable

alienable
Examples of how possession is marked differently for inalienable and alienable entities are given in what follows.
The conviction of the makability of nature makes her alienable from the landscape.
Finally, each object was coded for whether it referred to something that could be considered an alienable or inalienable possession.
Her methodology reverses the usual focus of analysis, however, from those things exchanged (alienable) to those things held back from exchange (inalienable).
These occur variably with the suffixed (inalienable) possession marker or the prenominal (alienable) possession marker.
Within that view, history and nature are more or less interchangeable: alienable from land, place and traditions in land use.
First, various scholars have looked at the structural strategies by which languages encode the conceptual difference between inalienable possession and alienable possession.
In his view, de facto private possession prevailed and land was quite freely alienable.
According to this scenario, the association of the two constructions with the semantic opposition between alienable and inalienable is only a secondary development, however.
Thus, the possessor and possessed are closer together linguistically in the inalienable construction than in the alienable one.
This is determined by the head, which is the alienable possessed and\\or the inalienable possessor element.
The alternative categorizations of inalienability captured in the inalienability hierarchy suggest that reflexes of the alienable/inalienable distinction may well be more diverse and widespread than has been previously assumed.
In inalienable possession 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.
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