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obl:own: owner in possessive existential clauses

Possessive existential clauses correspond to the English verb “to have”. In Kazakh, the concept of “X has Y” is expressed as “there is Y at X”. The adjectives бар / bar “existent” and жоқ / žoq “non-existent” are used as the head predicates in existential clauses, whether or not an owner is also expressed. The owner (possessor) can be expressed as an oblique nominal in the locative case and it is attached to the predicate as obl:own.

“Do you have empty rooms?”

“We have no empty rooms.”


obl:own in other languages: [kk] [myv]
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