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Titolo |
The expression of possession / / edited by William B. McGregor |
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New York, NY, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786612714160 |
1-282-71416-3 |
3-11-018438-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (444 p.) |
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Collana |
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The expression of cognitive categories ; ; 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Possessives |
Linguistics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction / McGregor, William B. -- English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Willemse, Peter / Davidse, Kristin / Heyvaert, Liesbet -- On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Rijkhoff, Jan -- Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Payne, Doris L. -- Learning to encode possession / Eisenbeiß, Sonja / Matsuo, Ayumi / Sonnenstuhl, Ingrid -- Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: A constructional account / Fried, Mirjam -- Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Lichtenberk, Frantisek -- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Staden, Miriam van -- Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Voort, Hein van der -- Possession in the visual-gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Cormier, Kearsy / Fenlon, Jordan -- Backmatter |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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