03816nam 2200757Ia 450 991082405150332120211028012738.097866127141601-282-71416-33-11-018438-910.1515/9783110213232(CKB)2670000000353831(EBL)511895(OCoLC)613192849(SSID)ssj0000417456(PQKBManifestationID)11276230(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417456(PQKBWorkID)10363480(PQKB)10122519(MiAaPQ)EBC511895(DE-B1597)33402(OCoLC)1013946811(OCoLC)979782723(DE-B1597)9783110213232(Au-PeEL)EBL511895(CaPaEBR)ebr10373585(CaONFJC)MIL271416(PPN)175511632(EXLCZ)99267000000035383120090915d2009 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrThe expression of possession[electronic resource] /edited by William B. McGregorNew York, NY Mouton de Gruyter20091 online resource (444 p.)The expression of cognitive categories ;2Description based upon print version of record.3-11-021323-0 3-11-018437-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --BackmatterThis 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 hasExpression of cognitive categories ;2.Grammar, Comparative and generalPossessivesLinguisticsCognitive Linguistics.Language Typology.Morphology.Neurolinguistics.Psycholinguistics.Semantics.Syntax.Grammar, Comparative and generalPossessives.Linguistics.415McGregor William1952-1684192MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824051503321The expression of possession4073910UNINA