Format:
Online Ressource (xvii, 812 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780191568145
,
0191568147
Series Statement:
Oxford linguistics
Content:
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 whic
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [769]-801) and indexes. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
1282268694
Additional Edition:
9781282268692
Additional Edition:
9786612268694
Additional Edition:
6612268697
Additional Edition:
9780199211654
Additional Edition:
0199211655
Additional Edition:
9780199211654
Additional Edition:
0199211655
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stassen, Leon Predicative possession Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
Language:
English
Keywords:
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