Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

In many cases, inanimate predicates are less felicitous in belong-constructions for semantic reasons. This is not about variation between possible markers in belong-constructions, it is rather a need for switching to an alternative construction.

?Ez	a	borító	a	lexikon-é.	/	Ez	a	lexikon	borító-ja.
this	the	cover	the	lexicon-é	/	this	the	lexicon	cover-POSS

’This cover is the lexicon's. / This the lexicon's cover.’

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