Alienable and inalienable possession in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban)
14h-16h
ISH, salle Elise Rivet
Conférence de :
Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada(University of Alberta)
dans le cadre DTT : Atelier Morphosyntaxe
This presentation focuses on possession marking in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban, Colombia and Venezuela, ISO 639-3: pid). Based on first-hand fieldwork data and building on previous descriptions, I show that Piaroa has both inalienable and alienable possession and that for a subset of nouns, possession marking is accomplished via possessive classifiers, that originated in lexical items. This presentation not only contributes to the description of Piaroa, an underdocumented and underdescribed Amazonian language, but also to our understanding of possessive classifier systems and their genesis.