birtokosels
Birtokosels is a hypothetical grammatical category used in some linguistic discussions to describe a particular pattern of possessive marking in synthetic languages. The term combines the Hungarian word birtokos, meaning possessive, with a suffix-like label -els used by researchers to designate this class. Birtokosels is typically framed as a way to encode possession that goes beyond simple genitive marking or independent possessive pronouns.
The etymology of the term is scholarly rather than historical. It functions as an analytic construct in
Typologically, birtokosels patterns vary across languages that employ rich nominal morphology. In some analyses, the marker
The status of birtokosels as a distinct category is debated. It serves as a useful abstraction for