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The expression of possession / edited by William B. McGregor.
- 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.
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (444 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction / McGregor, William B.
- English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Willemse, Peter / Davidse, Kristin / Heyvaert, Liesbet
- On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Rijkhoff, Jan
- Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Payne, Doris L.
- Learning to encode possession / Eisenbeiß, Sonja / Matsuo, Ayumi / Sonnenstuhl, Ingrid
- Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: A constructional account / Fried, Mirjam
- Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Lichtenberk, Frantisek
- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Staden, Miriam van
- Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Voort, Hein van der
- Possession in the visual-gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Cormier, Kearsy / Fenlon, Jordan
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612714160
- 9781282714168
- 1282714163
- 9783110184389
- 3110184389
- OCLC:
- 613192849
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