Expressing Possession in Southern Quechua
Channel: Carlos Molina-Vital
Date: 2020-09-28

We examine the most basic ways to express possession in Southern Quechua: the use of a possessive suffix, the genitive case (-p/-pa and their dialectal variants), as well as the construction with kan ('there is/are') that expresses 'to have.'


We pay particular attention to the relation between the possessor ('owner') and the possessed entity: Southern Quechua requires an agreement between them that is expressed in the possessive marker and the grammatical person of the possessor. 


We finish the presentation mentioning other possessive constructions that express a stronger relation between the possessor and the possessed entity.