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Peer reviewedLevine, James S. – Russian Language Journal, 1986
Linguistic expressions involving body parts (and other entities) belonging to an "interested person" often have unique grammatical properties, e.g., the dative case in Russian. The notion called Inalienable Possession (IP) is used to account for such properties. Semantic and pragmatic analyses account for some of the properties of IP in Russian.…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Nouns, Phrase Structure, Pragmatics
