(Ebook) The expression of possession by William McGregor ISBN 9783110184372, 9783110184389, 9783110213232, 3110184370, 3110184389, 3110213230

(Ebook) The expression of possession by William McGregor ISBN 9783110184372, 9783110184389, 9783110213232, 3110184370, 3110184389, 3110213230

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.
Content: 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.
Abstract: 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