%0 Journal Article
%T Predicative possession in Medieval Slavic Bible translations Predicative Possession in Early Biblical Slavic
%A Julia McAnallen
%J Oslo Studies in Language
%D 2011
%I University of Oslo
%X Late Proto-Slavic (LPS) had an inventory of three constructions for expressing predicative possession. Using the earliest Slavic Bible translations from Old Church Slavic (OCS), and to a lesser degree Old Czech, a number of conclusions can be drawn about the status of predicative possession for LPS. The verb im¨§ti ¡®have¡¯ was the most frequent and least syntactically and semantically restricted predicative possessive construction (PPC). Existential PPCs with a dative possessor appear primarily with kinship relations, abstract possessums, and in a number of other fixed construction types; existential PPCs with the possessor in an u + genitive prepositional phrase primarily appear with concrete and countable possessums. Both existential PPCs call for an animate, most often pronominal, possessor. The u + genitive was the rarest type of PPC in LPS, though it had undoubtedly grammaticalized as a PPC.
%U https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/osla/article/view/44