Editing Inalienable possession (section)

====No overt possessive markers====
The [[South American language]] [[Dâw language|Dâw]] uses a special possessive [[morpheme]] (bold in the examples below) to indicate alienable possession.<ref name = Martins>{{cite book|last1=Martins|first1=Silvana Andrade|title=Fonologia e gramática Dâw|date=2004|publisher=LOT|location=Utrecht, Netherlands|pages=546–547}}</ref> The possessive morpheme '''''ɛ̃̀ɟ''''' in examples (3a) and (3b) indicates an alienable relationship between the possessor and the possessee.

{{interlinear|number=(3) a.
 |top= '''Alienable'''
 |tɔp   Tũk-'''ɛ̃̀ɟ'''
 |house Tũk-'''POSS'''
 |'Tũk's house'
}}
{{interlinear|number={{hidden text|(3)}} b.
 |tih-'''ɛ̃̀ɟ'''   cɤ̀g
 |3SG-'''POSS''' arrow
 |'his arrow'
 |bottom= (Martins 2004: 546)
}}

The possessive marker does not occur in inalienable possession constructions. Thus, the absence of '''''ɛ̃̀ɟ''''', as in example (4), indicates that the relationship between the possessor and the possessee is inalienable possession.

{{interlinear|number=(4)
 |top='''Inalienable'''
 |tih nũh
 |3SG head
 |‘his head'
 |bottom= (Martins 2004: 547)
}}