The Grammar of Inalienability
Subtitle: A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 14)
Contributors: Hilary Chappell (Editor); William McGregory (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 931
ISBN-13: 9783110128048
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language; Semantics, Comparative; Nomenclature (Popular); Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Human anatomy; Possessives
First sentence: For most linguists, the term "inalienability" evokes the complementary term "alienability" and brings to mind the existence of different ways of expressing possession in many "exotic" languages of Australia, the Pacific, Africa and America.