Tsotsil possession profile #
Per-language possession data for Tsotsil (Mayan; ISO tzo) as bare
field-by-field defs, following the project's "per-language data flows
through Fragments" rule ([Sta09b]; [Nic86]; [Hei97];
[AP25]).
Main declarations #
obligatoryPossession,possessiveClassification,predicativeStrategy,adnominalStrategy,affixPosition: the five possession-profile values.
Implementation notes #
The substrate types (PredicativeStrategy, AdnominalMarking, …) live in
Linglib/Features/Possession.lean; the cross-linguistic theorems consuming
these values live in Studies/NicholsBickel2013.lean.
Examples: oy s-k'ox barko 'EXIS A3-little.boat', s-me' Xun 'A3-mother Juan' = "Juan's mother", y-ak'-il li mok=e 'A3-vine-NCLS DET fence=ENC'. Existential oy + possessive pivot for predicative; Set A prefixes on possessum for adnominal (head-marking); three noun classes: must/may/cannot be possessed ([AP25]).