Barbour, Julie Renee2019-10-2920162019-10-292016Barbour, J. R. (2016). An account of possession in Larevet. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, 34(1), 139–163.0023-1959https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13046This paper presents a first analysis of the Larevet language of central Malakula, Vanuatu, focusing on its possessive system. I locate the analysis within the literature on possession in the Oceanic language family broadly, seeking to understand how the synchronic system re- lates to both typological understandings within the family, and the possessive system recon- structed for Proto Oceanic. Drawing on a corpus of communicative and elicited language as evidence, I demonstrate that Larevet displays many features of a canonical Oceanic language, and that where changes have occurred, these align well with observations of possession in related languages of Malakula.application/pdfen© 2016 copyright with the author.MalakulaLarevetpossessionoceanicalienabilityJournal Article