02916nam 2200661 a 450 991081850670332120230721022524.01-383-03497-41-282-26869-497866122686940-19-156814-7(CKB)1000000000788794(EBL)472084(OCoLC)435942194(SSID)ssj0000226349(PQKBManifestationID)11187146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226349(PQKBWorkID)10259001(PQKB)11228059(Au-PeEL)EBL472084(CaPaEBR)ebr10329625(Au-PeEL)EBL4964065(CaONFJC)MIL226869(MiAaPQ)EBC472084(EXLCZ)99100000000078879420090725d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPredicative possession[electronic resource] /Leon StassenOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (831 p.)Oxford linguisticsOxford studies in typology and linguistic theoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-921165-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 SubjectsThis 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 which lack aOxford linguistics.Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.Grammar, Comparative and generalVerb phraseTypology (Linguistics)SemanticsGrammar, Comparative and generalVerb phrase.Typology (Linguistics)Semantics.415Stassen Leon715615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818506703321Predicative possession1385218UNINA