Possession in Ter-Sami

Abstract

The Sami (=Lapp) language is spoken in Scandinavia and the USSR. Ter-Lapp is one of the Kola-Lapp dialects. This dialect has not been described yet. This paper is part of a longer article in which different types of possessive expressions will be studied, on the basis of sentences taken from stories. If the two components are "noun plus noun," the first noun is the possessor, rendered by nominative, genitive, or inessive-elative. The present paper is a description, without comparative or contrastive efforts.