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    "pk": 35211,
    "title": "Possessive prefixes in Proto-Kusunda",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Three varieties of Kusunda, a moribund language isolate of Nepal, have been recorded in existing literature; in Hodgson (1857), in Reinhard & Toba (1970), and in several recent publications analyzing material elicited from the language’s last two fluent speakers, Gyani Maiya Sen and Kamala Khatri. Each of these varieties exhibits a set of unique phonological and morphological innovations from their latest common ancestor, Proto-Kusunda (PK). This paper seeks to reconstruct the prefixing possessive marking system of PK, using morphological evidence from the 3 attested varieties. Proto-Kusunda is found to have exhibited obligatory possessive marking on a set of inalienably possessed nouns. Possessed nouns were marked with 2 sets of preposed affixes: *t- *n- *g-, which indexed the person of the noun’s possessor, and *-i- *-a- *-u- *-ja-, a set of derivational prefixes which categorized possessed nominals into a number of semantic fields. The formal and functional characteristics of this system are strongly reminiscent of an analogous system of head-marking possession found in the Great Andamanese language family of India, prompting questions of possible areal influence or genetic inheritance in the remote past.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Kusunda"
        },
        {
            "word": "Possessive Prefixes"
        },
        {
            "word": "Lexicalization"
        },
        {
            "word": "Somatic affixes"
        },
        {
            "word": "Great Andamanese"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r58b159",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Augie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Spendley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2023-05-23T20:50:52Z",
    "date_accepted": "2023-05-23T20:50:52Z",
    "date_published": "2024-07-15T07:00:00Z",
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}