b'The second category is termed intimate possession (i.poss), and occurs as a proclitic (kala his item) to the possessed item.Intimate possession includes (i) items that are consumed or worn, (ii) personal traits of the possessor, (iii) items a person has been loaned for a particular task or which have been set aside for his future use, and (iv) a few body part terms which are not considered class 2 nouns.The field of intimately possessed items is large and nouns generally require contextual information to establish their place in this field. While most items can be possessed in different ways, some remain rigidly fixed as one type of possession (husband or wife, body part terms). The third category is termed general possession (g.poss). It includes possession of items that are owned but are easily disposed of if the possessor so chooses.This also occurs as a proclitic (la his item) to the possessed item. The use of this proclitic implies personal ownership, control over the possessed item, and the owner is free to give it away or sell it if he chooses, or else to keep it permanently as personal property.The following examples show what kinds of property are included.It is noteworthy that the terms for husband or wife are so marked, and they are not categorised as kin. la bwalahis house la ligisahis adze ulo wotamy handnet m mwalayour(sg) husband la kwavahis wife da nanamsathe idea which we both havemi vavagithe household goods that you(pl) possess A few examples follow of items that need a context to determine whether they are personally owned or intimately possessed. g.possla tutahis time (when he usually comes here) i.posskala tutahis time (chosen for him to speak) g.possla wagahis canoe (which he bought or made, and uses) i.posskala wagahis canoe (the one he is to get into today) g.possla kaiyala his spear (which he uses always) i.poss kala kaiyalahis spear (the one which struck him) Any noun occurring in a dictionary entry marked with a possession indicator in brackets is understood as the canonical entry (3 rdp sg) representing all possible forms of the full paradigm set for that marker.If it is not bracketed then the entry refers only to the part of speech that the marker shows. Noun phrases The components of noun phrases include a noun headword, with three additional optional modifiers (a deictic word, a number, and an adjective), with a classifier included as the core of each modifier.It is important to recognise that while the classifier does not appear morphologically in the head noun, yet it represents some particular meaning group into which the speaker places that noun. Brief comments on each part of the noun phrase are necessary here. 1.The head noun is any one of the various classes of nouns described above.While it is seen as the one essential component of the phrase, frequently in discourse the head noun may be omitted, because if a modifier is present which identifies the noun clearly the speaker feels it unnecessary to name it.21'