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Linglib.Fragments.Hungarian.Possession

Hungarian possession profile #

[Sta09b] [Nic86] [Hei97] [KVF98] [Rou01]

Per-language possession data for Hungarian (Uralic; ISO hun), per the project's "per-language data flows through Fragments" rule, as bare field-by-field defs. Substrate types (PredicativeStrategy, AdnominalMarking, …) live in Linglib/Features/Possession.lean. Cross-linguistic theorems consuming these values live in Studies/NicholsBickel2013.lean.

Examples: nekem van konyvem, Janos kalap-ja. Dative possessor + van 'exists' + head-marked possessum; possessive suffixes obligatory on relational nouns.

The adnominalStrategy := .headMarking choice is consistent with both standard reference grammars: [KVF98] §1.10 analyzes possession via the possessive suffix on the possessum (Péter vers-e 'Peter's poem' = "Peter poem-POSS"), with the optional dative possessor (Péter-nek a vers-e "Peter-DAT the poem-POSS") when extracted for specificity reasons (per Szabolcsi 1986/1992, 1994, as cited there). Both KVF and [Rou01] treat the possessor-marker as dative, not genitive — Hungarian has no morphological GEN, and Fragments/Hungarian/Case.lean reflects this by omitting .gen from its caseInventory.