Dataset for "Non-canonical possessive constructions in Negidal and other Tungusic languages: a new analysis of the so-called 'alienable possession' suffix" ...

• Main Authors: Aralova, Natalia, Pakendorf, Brigitte
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: associative possession; inalienable-alienable distinction; possessive classes; Siberia; Tungusic; Françoise; Tungusic languages; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7897521; https://zenodo.org/record/7897521

This is the dataset used in the paper: Aralova, N. & Pakendorf, B. (2023). Non-canonical possessive constructions in Negidal and other Tungusic languages: a new analysis of the so-called “alienable possession” suffix. Special Issue “Re-assessing the explanatory potential of alienability contrasts”, guest-edited by Françoise Rose & An Van linden. Linguistics . https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0030 For more details, see the ReadMe file. ... : We acknowledge the generous support of the Endangered Languages Documentation Project (www.eldp.net), which enabled our work on the Negidal corpus. Brigitte Pakendorf is grateful to the ASLAN project (ANR-10-LABX-0081) of the Université de Lyon, for its financial support within the French program "Investments for the Future" operated by the National Research Agency (ANR). Natalia Aralova's work on this paper was supported by the Kazan Federal University Strategic Academic Leadership Program. Last, but definitely not least, we are very grateful to all the speakers of Negidal who contributed to the corpus, and in particular to our main consultants Daria Nadeina and Galina Kandakova, whose patient help over many years was crucial to our work. ...