Predicative possession [[electronic resource] /] / Leon Stassen

• Autore: Stassen Leon
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (831 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase; Typology (Linguistics); Semantics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [769]-801) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Predicative possession
• ISBN: 1-282-26869-4; 9786612268694; 0-19-156814-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454914703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford linguistics.; Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory.