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topic possessive strategy (str)
a.k.a. double subject possessive strategy,distributed subject possessive strategy
a strategy for the presentational possession construction in which the possessor is expressed as a topic phrase, and the possessum is expressed in a subject phrase, usually the subject of a verb glossed as
exist. Example: Cupeño neʔ ne-mixen ʔiket miyexwe [I my net is]
I have a netis an instance of the topic possessive strategy, with
Iexpressed in a topic phrase and
my netin a subject phrase. (Section 10.4.2)
Expression
Is Expression Of
Hierarchy