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POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN SOUTHERN SELKUP DIALECTS // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2015. Issue 4 (10). P. 45-50

The use of possession in Southern Selkup can be divided in adnominal and predicative possession. In adnominal possession the possessor can be either a noun or a pronoun, the construction is usually head final. If the possessor is encoded pronominally, it can be marked with pronouns, possessive suffixes or a combination of the two. As in other Samoyedic languages possessive suffixes in Southern Selkup are also used to express non-possessive meaning. Predicative possession is essentially based on existential constructions as no habeo-verb exists in Southern Selkup; mostly nominative and locative constructions are in use.

Keywords: Southern Selkup, possession, possessive constructions