Obligatory possession
Obligatory possession is a
Tzutujil in the WALS sample), but not all Athabaskan languages have it. Slavey does not have obligatory possession[3] but Navajo has it.[4] Obligatory possession is also present in the language isolate Haida
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English has it for own as an adjective: one's own body not *an own body.[citation needed]
Obligatory possession is sometimes called inalienable possession. However, true inalienable possession is a semantic notion, largely dependent on how a culture structures the world, whereas obligatory possession is a property of morphemes.[5] In general, nouns with the property of requiring obligatory possession are notionally inalienably possessed, but the relation is rarely, if ever, perfect.
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