Editing Inalienable possession (section)

== Comparison to alienable possession ==
With inalienable possession, the two entities have a permanent association in which the possessed has little control over their possessor.<ref name="Chappell, McGregor">{{cite book |last1=Chappell |first1=Hilary |last2=McGregor |first2=William |title=Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability. The grammar of inalienability: A typological perspective on body-part terms and the part-whole relation |date=1996 |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |location=Berlin; New York |isbn=3-11-012804-7 |pages=3–30}}</ref> For instance, body parts (under normal circumstances) do not change and cannot be removed from their possessor. The following real-world relationships often fall under inalienable possession:<ref name="auto"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Type of relationship !! Examples
|-
| kinship || father, mother, aunt
|-
| social relationship || trading partner, neighbor
|-
| body part || eye, leg
|-
| part-whole relationship  || tabletop, side
|-
| possessed noun originates from the possessor || sweat, voice
|-
| mental state or process || fear, mind
|-
| attribute of a known possessor || name, age
|}

Alienable possession, on the other hand, has a less permanent association between the two entities.<ref name="Chappell, McGregor"/> For instance, most objects may or may not be possessed. When such types of objects are possessed, the possession is '''alienable'''. Alienable possession is used generally for tangible items that one might cease to own at some point (such as ''my money''), but inalienable possession generally refers to a perpetual relationship that cannot be readily severed (such as ''my mother'' or ''my arm'').<ref name="auto"/>

The table above outlines some common inalienable relationships, but it is important to note that they are just the most common types of inalienable nouns. Languages with an alienable/inalienable possession distinction differ in which classes fall under each type of possession. However, if a language has such a distinction, kinship roles or body parts (or both) make up some of the entities that are inalienably possessed.<ref name="Stolz et al. 2008">{{cite book |last1=Stolz |first1=Thomas |last2=Kettler |first2=Sonja |last3=Stroh |first3=Cornelia |last4=Urdze |first4=Aina |title=Split possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe |date=2008 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |isbn=978-90-272-0568-1}}</ref> Also, languages may make different distinctions within the categories on how many and which entities are treated as inalienable.<ref name="Stolz et al. 2008" />

Moreover, some languages allow the same noun to be either alienable or inalienable.<ref name="Chappell, McGregor" /> Thus, trying to determine if a noun is alienable or inalienable based on its meaning or its affiliation to a specific noun category (for instance, ''body parts'') can be difficult.<ref name="Thunes 2013">{{cite journal |last1=Thunes |first1=Martha |title=The inalienability pattern of English and Norwegian |journal=Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies |date=2013 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=167–178 |doi=10.15845/bells.v3i1.369|doi-access=free}}</ref>