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-This one looks questionable.  "Dye" (purrak) is being incorporated as an Instrumental into the stative verb.  I would think instrumental incorporation is more likely in transitive verbs.  Also, cross-linguistically more animate subjects are focused than less animate ones.  In this case, the first example is less likely to be used than the second.
+Speakers consistently reject sentences such as the following.  In this infelicitous sentence, the NP has full possessor-possessum marking and occurs outside the verb complex, while the material that made the speaker's face green has been incorporated as if it were Instrumental argument.  Animacy considerations may explain this restriction; possessors more often than not tend to have higher animacy than their possessums:
 {{Gloss
-|phrase = Ruppamaktirekt asumtahālpurrakmaharan.
+|phrase = *Ruppamaktirekt asumtahālpurrakmaharan.
 | IPA =
 | morphemes = ruppamak-tirek=de asum-tahal-purrak-mah-ar-an
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 | translation = My face became green from the dye.
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-This one looks kosher though and appears to be doing possessor raising.
-{{Gloss
-|phrase = Purrakyār asuntaharrumpakkaran.
-| IPA =
-| morphemes = purrak=yār asum-tahal-ruppamak-ek-ar-an.
-| gloss = dye=ABL face-3NS.NOM+1S.NOM=ERG INCH-be.green-face-1S.NOM-PST-INTR
-| translation = My face became green from the dye (lit. "I became green face-wise from the pigment")
-}}
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