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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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McGregor, William, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009.
Colección:Expression of cognitive categories ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.