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Possession in Irarutu
- Oceanic Linguistics
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, June 2008
- pp. 213-222
- 10.1353/ol.0.0001
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This short paper offers a description of possessive constructions in Irarutu, an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesian Papua, which belongs to the South Halmahera–West New Guinea subgroup. Possession in Irarutu follows a typical East Malayo-Polynesian pattern distinguishing alienable and inalienable possession, but some of the morphology used to code possession is unusual, including what appears to be possessive infixation.