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Split possession : an areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe /

This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the alienability...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stolz, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 101.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Split Possession; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Categories; Superscripts; Glossonym; Part A. What needs to be known beforehand; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Prerequisites; Chapter 3. Split possession; Part B. Tour d'Europe; Chapter 4. Grammatical possession splits; Chapter 5. Further evidence of possession splits in Europe; Part C. On European misfits and their commonalities; Chapter 6. Results; Notes; Sources; References; Additional background literature; Index of languages; Index of authors; Index of subjects.