In most Arawak languages, obligatorily possessed nouns are bound forms. They have to be accompanied by a possessor. If the possessor is unknown or irrelevant, the noun will take the non-specified possessor suffix. A suffix of the same segmental form occurs in deverbal nominalizations with unspecified arguments, or as a nominalizer on verbs. We hypothesise that the non-specified possessor suffix was originally a feature of obligatorily possessed nouns denoting body parts and a selection of culturally important items (including ‘house’) but not kinship terms. The common Arawak polysemy of a non-specified possessor marker and a nominalizer, reconstructible for the proto-language, appears to be cross-linguistically rare.

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移除所有者：阿拉瓦克语中的非特定所有者标记*

在大多数阿拉瓦克语言中，强制使用的名词是绑定形式。他们必须有一个拥有者陪伴。如果拥有者未知或不相关，则名词将采用未指定的拥有者后缀。相同句段形式的后缀出现在带有未指定参数的非动词名词化中，或作为动词的名词化。我们假设未指定的拥有者后缀最初是表示身体部位的强制性拥有名词和一系列具有文化重要性的项目（包括“房屋”）的特征，但不是亲属关系术语。一个未指定的拥有者标记和一个名词化者的常见阿拉瓦克多义词，可重构为原始语言，似乎在跨语言上很少见。