(Ebook) Intransitive Predication 1st Edition by Leon Stassen ISBN 9780199258932 0199258937

(Ebook) Intransitive Predication 1st Edition by Leon Stassen ISBN 9780199258932 0199258937

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ISBN 10: 0199258937
ISBN 13: 9780199258932
Author: Leon Stassen

(Ebook) Intransitive Predication 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. The Typology of Predicative Possession

1 The domain of the inquiry

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Previous work

1.3 The semantics of possession: two parameters

1.4 The cognitive space of possession: subdomains

1.5 Formal restrictions on the domain

1.6 The definition of the domain

1.7 The sample

1.8 Outline of this book

2 Four basic types of predicative possession

2.1 Methodological issues

2.2 The definition of the criterion

2.3 The Locational Possessive

2.4 The With-Possessive

2.5 The Topic Possessive

2.6 The Have-Possessive

2.7 Conclusion

3 Non-standard variants

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Possessor indexing on the possessee

3.3 Zero-encoding

3.4 Conjunctional Possessives

3.5 Clausal Possessives

3.6 Topic-Locational hybrids

4 Adnominalization

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Constituency in the Adnominal Possessive

4.3 The origin of genitival markers

4.4 Conclusion

5 Predicativization

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Predicativization of With-Possessives

5.3 Predicativization of other types?

6 Transitivization

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Have-Drift from With-Possessives

6.3 Have-Drift from Topic Possessives

6.4 Have-Drift from Locational Possessives

6.5 Why Have-Drift?

7 Summary of Part I

7.1 Basic features of the typology

7.2 Areal distribution of the types

Part II. Determinant Factors

8 In search of determinant factors

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Temporal sequencing

8.3 Nonverbal predication: the split/share parameter

8.4 The universals of predicative possession encoding

9 Locational Possessives

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Indo-European

9.3 Languages of the Caucasus

9.4 Uralic

9.5 Altaic

9.6 Other languages of Siberia

9.7 Munda and Dravidian

9.8 Tibeto-Burman

9.9 Middle East and North Africa

9.10 Other African languages

9.11 Indian and Pacific Ocean

9.12 North and Central America

9.13 South America

9.14 Conclusion

10 With-Possessives

10.1 Introduction

10.2 North-east Siberia

10.3 North America

10.4 Central America

10.5 South America

10.6 Austronesian and Papuan

10.7 Australia

10.8 Africa

10.9 Austro-Asiatic

10.10 Conclusion

11 Topic Possessives

11.1 Introduction

11.2 East and south-east Asia

11.3 Austronesian

11.4 New Guinea and Northern Australia

11.5 North America

11.6 Central America

11.7 South America

11.8 African languages

11.9 Conclusion

12 Have-Possessives

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Indo-European

12.3 Further Eurasia

12.4 Austronesian and Papuan

12.5 Australian

12.6 North America

12.7 Central America

12.8 South America

12.9 Khoisan

12.10 Afro-Asiatic

12.11 Nilo-Saharan

12.12 Niger-Kordofanian

12.13 Creoles

12.14 Conclusion

Part III. A Model of Predicative Possession Encoding

13 A model of predicative possession encoding

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Preliminaries

13.3 The underlying structure of predicative possession

13.4 Deranking languages

13.5 Balancing languages

13.6 Potential ambiguity and the Have-Possessive

13.7 Conclusion

Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of the sample

Appendix B: Typological stratification of the sample

References

Index of Languages

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