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200 10$aPredicative possession$b[electronic resource] /$fLeon Stassen
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (831 p.)
225 1 $aOxford linguistics
225 1 $aOxford studies in typology and linguistic theory
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-921165-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [769]-801) and indexes.
327   $aContents; 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 Subjects
330   $aThis is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in ""the boy has a bat"". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how theychange. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a
410  0$aOxford linguistics.
410  0$aOxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.
606   $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xVerb phrase
606   $aTypology (Linguistics)
606   $aSemantics
615  0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xVerb phrase.
615  0$aTypology (Linguistics)
615  0$aSemantics.
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