| Description |
1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The expression of cognitive categories ; 2
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Expression of cognitive categories ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McGregor, William, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Expression of possession. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110184372 (DLC) 2009038372 (OCoLC)436946073 |
| ISBN |
9783110213232 (electronic book) |
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3110213230 (electronic book) |
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9783110184372 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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3110184370 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110184389 (pb) |
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3110184389 (pb) |
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