The expression of possession:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter © 2009
Series:Expression of cognitive categories 2
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
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
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ISBN:3110184389
3110213230
9783110184389
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