%0 Journal Article
%T Old data, new cognates: the case of the 'marker of alienable possession' in the Kamak , Pur¨ª, and Kren¨¢k families
%A Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro
%J Cadernos de Etnoling¨¹¨ªstica : Estudos de Ling¨¹¨ªstica Sul-Americana
%D 2009
%I Cadernos de Etnolinguistica
%X In Macro-J¨º, cases of shared grammatical peculiarities play an essential role in corroborating hypotheses of genetic relationships. One of such ¡°shared aberrancies¡± is a morpheme which signals indirect possession, initially described for J¨º, Bor¨®ro, Maxakal¨ª, and Kipe¨¢ (Rodrigues 1992, Ribeiro 2002). The present note describes the occurrence of likely cognates of this morpheme in three other families (Kamak , Pur¨ª, and Kren¨¢k), illustrating the importance, for Macro-J¨º historical linguistics, of fragmentary data from poorly-documented languages.
%U http://www.etnolinguistica.org/nota:2