Categorizing possession in Zuanga-Yuanga and other Kanak languages (New Caledonia): a typological perspective
Like many other Oceanic and Kanak languages of New Caledonia, Zuanga-Yuanga [ZY] has classifiers restricted to the possession of nouns denoting food, drink, animals and plants; it also has dichotomous direct and Bodysuit indirect adnominal possessive constructions, which are generally labeled inalienable or alienable in the Oceanic literature.These