The expression of possession [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William B. McGregor

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (444 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Possessives; Linguistics
• Soggetto non controllato: Cognitive Linguistics; Language Typology; Morphology; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax
• Altri autori: McGregorWilliam <1952->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The expression of possession
• ISBN: 9786612714160; 1-282-71416-3; 3-11-018438-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786728503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Expression of cognitive categories ; ; 2.