Išorinė posesoriaus raiška lietuvių kalboje
External possession in Lithuanian

Summary/Abstract: In this article a first attempt is made to characterise the Lithuanian constructions with external possessors (alternating with adnominal genitives) taking into account the results of recent typological research into external possession. Only preliminary observations are made, but it is already possible to state that, in a European context, the Lithuanian constructions with external possessors belong to the prototypical area, in which these constructions are subject to a number of constraints mainly with regard to animacy and degree of affectedness. In this respect, Lithuanian differs markedly from its sister language Latvian. There is thus no common Baltic type of external possession.

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