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Chick Corean uses a possessive prefix, either on a classifier placed before the possessum (classifiers are also used as definite articles) for alienable possession or directly on the possessum for inalienable possession.
Chick Corean uses a possessive prefix, either on a classifier placed before the possessum (classifiers are also used as definite articles) for alienable possession or directly on the possessum for inalienable possession.


Example:
Examples:


:Alienable: ''Teuk s-raev hundeofin'' = the man's song (e.g. a song that he is singing)
:''Teuk s-raev hundeofin'' = the man's song (e.g. a song that he is singing)
:Inalienable: ''Teuk sju-hundeofin'' = the man's song (i.e. a song authored by him)
:''Teuk sju-hundeofin'' = the man's song (i.e. a song authored by him)
 
:''X-lek zjeosm'' = my wife
:''*Xi-zjeosm''
 
:''Xi-bae'' = my father
:''*X-lek bae''


The possessive prefixes are as follows (they're always hyphenated):
The possessive prefixes are as follows (they're always hyphenated):