The expression of possession /
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....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2009.
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Colección: | Expression of cognitive categories ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.