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Publication details [#4736]

Hinnebusch, Thomas J. and Robert S. Kirsner. 1980. On the inference of 'inalienable possession' in Swahili. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 2 : 1–16.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
inalienable possesion
Language as a subject
Swahili
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

An argument for the claim that the concepts of 'inalienable' versus 'alienable' possession do not belong to the grammatical primitives of Swahili.