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The expression of possession / edited by William B. McGregor.
LIBRA P299.P67 E925 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Expression of cognitive categories ; 2.
- The expression of cognitive categories ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Possessives.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction / William B. McGregor
- English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Peter Willemse, Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert
- On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Jan Rijkhoff
- Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Doris Payne
- Learning to encode possession / Sonja Eisenbeiss, Ayumi Matsuo and Ingrid Sonnenstuhl
- Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: a constructional account / Mirjam Fried
- Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Frank Lichtenberk
- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Miriam van Staden
- Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Hein van der Voort
- Possession in the visual-gestural modality: how possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Kearsy Cormier and Jordan Fenlon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110184372
- 3110184370
- 9783110184389
- 3110184389
- OCLC:
- 436946073
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