Alienability splits in Swedish from a diachronic perspective

The paper discusses possessive expressions with body-part nouns in Swedish (1300–1550) with particular focus on the so-called alienability splits, i.e., separate patterns of marking possession for alienable and inalienable entities. The key problem to be addressed is to what extent such splits ca...

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Main Authors: Piotrowska, Alicja, Skrzypek, Dominika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18570/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18570/1/51762-178356-1-PB.pdf