Alienable Noun
Alienable Noun
An alienable noun is a noun that:
- refers to something viewed as not permanently or necessarily possessed, and
- is thus not obligatorily expressed as possessed in a language that also has 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: 20
Source: Crystal 1980
Crystal, David. 1980.A first dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview.
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Noun
Related terms
- RT⇆ Inalienable Noun
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/alienable-noun
