External comparison with possessive constructions in the Yeniseian languages of Siberia suggests a diachronic explanation for morphological idiosyncrasies associated with NaDene possessed nouns, postpositions, directionals, and demonstrative prefixes. Section 2 discusses the nasal-class prefix that appears before certain inalienably possessed nouns in Athabaskan (Dene) languages. Section 3 intr...

The purpose of this paper is to describe an uncommon valency operator in Wolof, the verbal morpheme –le which encodes a possessive relation between the subject and the object of a derived verb. After a brief presentation of background information to facilitate the discussion, internal possessive constructions in Wolof will be presented. First, the particularities of the “leconstruction” will be...

The paper deals with the category of possession as a linguistic and semantics English possessive substantive constructions. Possession is universal, fundamental complex heterogeneous meaning plane expression, therefore there are several directions its study in linguistics. In broad sense, expresses spatial relations between two objects, when one them considered an element “personal sphere” anot...

The paper presents a contrastive description of reflexive possessive pronouns “svůj” in Czech and “svoj” in Russian. The research concerns syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects. With our analysis, we shed a new light on the already investigated issue, which comes from a detailed comparison of the phenomenon of possessive reflexivization in two typologically and genetically similar languages...

In the last decades, streams within posthumanism and new materialism, have turned their attention to phenomenon of agency. And they done so in ways which open for social cultural historical investigations, relevant studies literary alike. This article uses a concrete case—the melodramatic novel Koloss by Norwegian author Finn Alnæs—in order speculate on how form can be seen co-evolve—or this ca...

Persian has a case system whereby specific direct objects are marked with the enclitic را =rā. However, spoken language presents greater degree of flexibility regard to =rā marking, espe ...

Even though Turnitin generates AI (Artificial Intelligence) writing detection reports, these reports shall not be used for punitive purposes as accuracy is way below the 98% claimed by Turnitin, revealed in this study. To assist professors, teachers, and content evaluation stakeholders their strive to identify AI-generated material, study examines stylistic features of case study, business corr...

This study examined the acquisition of prenominal and postnominal genitives by Iranian EFL learners. Two variables were considered: possessive categories and language proficiency. We considered the influence of possessive categories such as lexical modifier, semantic relationship, and weight and syntactic complexity on genitive alternations by Iranian EFL learners. Also, we examined whether the...