Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 812 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0199211655
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9780199211654
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
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Predicative Possession
Language:
English
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