Zum Ausdruck prädikativer Possessivität im Altavestischen

It is worth mentioning Benveniste’s well-known 1960 study where, on the basis of examples from many Indo-European languages including Old Persian and Avestan, the predicative constructions with dative and with genitive are classified respectively as «prédicat de possession», expressing “possession”, and as «prédicat d’appartenance», expressing “belonging”. Èdel’man’s 1975 paper and Bauer 2010 also deserve mention, since they contain a brief overview over the expressions of possession in the Iranian languages. The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed account of the functional distribution of predicative possessive constructions in the Old Avestan language,