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Author Stassen, Leon.

Title Predicative possession / Leon Stassen.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 812 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory
Oxford linguistics.
Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 769-801) and indexes.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I. The Typology of Predicative Possession; Part II. Determinant Factors; Part III. A Model of Predicative Possession Encoding; Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample; Appendix B: Typological stratification of the sample; References; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects.
Summary 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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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase.
Typology (Linguistics)
Typology (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Semantics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stassen, Leon. Predicative possession. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199211654 0199211655 (DLC) 2009280255 (OCoLC)251213118
ISBN 9780191568145 (electronic book)
0191568147 (electronic book)
9780199211654 (acid-free paper)
0199211655 (acid-free paper)
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