External possession / edited by Doris L. Payne, Immanuel Barshi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Payne, Doris L., 1952-

Barshi, Immanuel.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 39.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Possessives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as "have" or "own"

Contents:

EXTERNAL POSSESSION; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why; External Possession and Language Processes; External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic Perspective; Body-Part EP Constructions A Cognitive/Functional Analysis; External Possession in a European Areal Perspective; Mapping Possessors Parameterizing the External Possession Construction; External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz'utujil; The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages; External Possession in Creek

Chickasaw SubjecthoodExternal Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument Structure; "Where" rather than "What": Incorporation of 'Parts' in Totonac; External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms; Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi; External Possession in Sahaptian; External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan Languages; On the Properties of Emai Possessors; From Interest to Ownership: A Constructional View of External Possessors

External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in RussianPossessor Raising in a Language That Does Not Have Any; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index; TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE (TSL)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-16286-1

9786612162862

90-272-9860-2

OCLC:

70766099