The Expression of Possession 1st Edition by William Mcgregor ISBN 3110184370 978-3110184372

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ISBN 10: 3110184370  

ISBN 13: 978-3110184372

Author:  William B. Mcgregor

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 been to invite linguists whose research, while not necessarily directly dealing with possession, touches on it, and indicates that they are likely to provide fresh perspectives on this well-trodden field.

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William McGregor is a well known expert in this fíeld of research
Possession is a paradigm for studies on typology, ethnology etc., because a multitude of linguistic and cultural varieties are reflected in this field
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Table of contents: 

1 Introduction – William B. McGregor
2 English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse – Peter Willemse, Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert
3 On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English – Jan Rijkhoff
4 Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa – Doris Payne
5 Learning to encode possession – Sonja Eisenbeiß, Ayumi Matsuo and Ingrid Sonnenstuhl
6 Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: A constructional account – Miriam Fried
7 Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic – Frantisek Lichtenberk
8 Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore – Miriam van Staden
9 Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon – Hein van der Voort
10 Possession in the visual-gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language – Kearsy Cormier and Jordan Fenlon

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