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Predicative possession /
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how theychange. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of whic |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 812 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-801) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191568145 0191568147 1282268694 9781282268692 9786612268694 6612268697 |