Datapoint Bora / What is the most frequent order of possessor and possessed?

Language:

Bora

Feature:

What is the most frequent order of possessor and possessed? designed by Olga Krasnoukhova

Value:

A

Datapoint contributed by:

Olga Krasnoukhova 2013-12-22

Comment:

Word order: modifier-noun: 93% and noun-modifier: 7% (F.Seifart, p.c.; the counting was done by Borislava Ilcheva & Elisabeth Oßner (University of Regensburg).

Source:

Seifart 2005:143

Legal Values and Meanings:

Value	Meaning
?	Not known
A	posser-possedN
B	possedN-posser
C	both orders with neither order dominant
D	both but for specific constructions