Inalienable Noun
Inalienable Noun
An inalienable noun is a noun that
- refers to something viewed as permanently and necessarily possessed, and
- is thus obligatorily expressed as possessed.
It may require a distinguishing possessive form.
(Awa, Papua New Guinea)
In Awa, the body part and kinship terms are expressed as inalienable nouns.
Page/s: 31
Source: McKaughan and Loving 1973
McKaughan, Howard, and Aretta Loving. 1973. "Possessive prefixes occurring with inalienable Awa nouns." In McKaughan 1973
Page/s: 181
Source: Crystal 1980
Crystal, David. 1980.A first dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview.
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Noun
Related terms
- RT⇆ Alienable Noun
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/inalienable-noun
