The expression of possession
By: edited by William B. McGregor.
Contributors: McGregor, William, 1952-
Series: The expression of cognitive categories -- 2; Expression of cognitive categories -- 2.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9783110184372; 9783110184389
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William B. McGregor; title: English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Peter Willemse, Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert; title: On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Jan Rijkhoff; title: Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Doris Payne; title: Learning to encode possession / Sonja Eisenbeiss, Ayumi Matsuo and Ingrid Sonnenstuhl; title: Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: a constructional account / Mirjam Fried; title: Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Frank Lichtenberk; title: Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Miriam van Staden; title: Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Hein van der Voort; title: Possession in the visual-gestural modality: how possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Kearsy Cormier and Jordan Fenlon.