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This paper analyzes a construction involving genitives in Northern Akhvakh, the floating genitive construction. In this construction, a genitive NP is related to a noun in S or P role but is not included in the NP headed by this noun. The floating genitive identifies the personal sphere of its refer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carlier, Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Case and grammatical relations across languages ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This paper analyzes a construction involving genitives in Northern Akhvakh, the floating genitive construction. In this construction, a genitive NP is related to a noun in S or P role but is not included in the NP headed by this noun. The floating genitive identifies the personal sphere of its referent as the frame within which the predication expressed by the clause holds. Functionally, this construction combines the pragmatic motivations of framing constructions with the semantic effects common to other types of external possession constructions. Parallels are proposed between the flo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027291059
9027291055
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9781299736115