Editing Inalienable possession (section)

====Explicit possessors====
Another way for languages to distinguish between alienable and inalienable possession is to have one noun class that cannot appear without an explicit possessor.<ref name= Nichols4>{{cite web
| url = http://wals.info/feature/description/58
| title = Obligatory Possessive Inflection
| work = [[World Atlas of Language Structures]]
|author1=Nichols, Johanna |author2=Bickel, Balthasar | access-date = 2011-03-06
}}</ref> For example, [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]], an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian language]], has a class of nouns that must have explicit possessors.<ref name =Valentine>Valentine, J. Randolph ''Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2001. §3.3.1. pg. 106 ff.</ref><ref name = "concise dictionary of Ojibwe">Nichols, J. D.; Nyholm, E. ''A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.'' 1995.</ref>{{efn|Technically, the obligatory occurrence of a possessor is a property of certain morphemes called [[obligatory possession]], but linguists often use ''inalienable possession'' instead.}}

If explicit possessors are absent (as in (11b) and (12b)), the phrase is ungrammatical. In (11), the possessor '''''ni''''' is necessary for the inalienable noun '''''nik''''' (''arm''). In (12), the same phenomenon is found with the inalienable noun '''''ookmis''''' (''grandmother''), which requires the possessor morpheme '''''n''''' to be grammatical.

{{interlinear|indent=5|number=(11) a.
|top= '''inalienable body part noun'''
|'''ni''' nik
|'''POSS''' arm
|''''my''' arm'
}}
{{interlinear|indent=5|number={{hidden text|(11)}} b.
|* nik
|{} arm
|'(an) arm'
|bottom= (Nichols & Nyholm 1995: 138)
}}
{{interlinear|indent=5|number=(12) a.
|top='''inalienable kin noun'''
|'''n'''ookmis
|'''POSS'''-grandmother
|''''my''' grandmother'
}}
{{interlinear|indent=5|number={{hidden text|(12)}} b.
|* ookmis
|{} grandmother
|'(a) grandmother'
|bottom= (Nichols & Nyholm 1995: 189)
}}