At least your brain is inalienably yours - it's where the whole category "you" originates.

For him sovereignty belonged inalienably to the people.

Fair, petite and gaunt, she became inalienably identified in grandmother roles.

The twelfth possessive form is almost always found on inalienably possessed nouns.

He inalienably belonged to us; since hadn't we detected the quality of his genius when the veil was still upon its face?

The strategic desire to harness German economic power inalienably to French political ambitions remains.

Respect for our rights is not merely inalienably ours; it is our only path to welfare and security.

And, besides," he continued, with a fastidious sensibility, inalienably characteristic of the man," it would not be fit nor beautiful to go!

Such entities are inalienably possessed.

"The sound of water splashing in a park is one of the sounds inalienably linked to spring in New York," he said.

Some stems, called inalienably possessed noun stems, cannot be used without a pronominal prefix.

We're asked to believe that we and our furred and feathered siblings are conjoined inalienably in a grand chain of being.

Nouns are classified as either inalienably or alienably possessed, according to which possessive markers they occur with.

However, the reader associated the final glottal stop inalienably with the vowel quality when reading short Thai vowel symbols.

In general, nouns with the property of requiring obligatorily possession are notionally inalienably possessed, but the fit is rarely, if ever perfect.

Ongan languages have inalienable possession, and inalienably possessed nouns are all vowel initial.

On 24 February 1752 he introduced a bill for annexing the forfeited estates in Scotland to the crown inalienably, which after some opposition became law.

The following paradigm of the inalienably possessed noun tema- 'father' is from Sterner (1976).

Jim Perrin is delighted to find Quebec 'inalienably and wonderfully French'

Today, the longer war has been won, cultural resistance has carried the day and the character of Vieux Quebec is inalienably and wonderfully French.

To describe alienable possession of an inalienably possessed noun, the regular possessive forms are used with the indefinite form as a base rather than the bare stem.

Body parts are inalienably possessed, requiring a possessive adjective prefix to complete them, so one cannot say "head" alone, but only "my, or his, or your, etc. head".

Soon after, the earldom of Ross and the lands of Kintyre and Knapdale became inalienably annexed to the crown.

We come from God, we live by God, we belong to God: we are His, inalienably His.

In "double S-clauses"-idiomatic clauses that "refer to emotional states and contain an inalienably possessed body part"-the body part must precede the predicate.