Possession
Subtitle: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521024136
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar, Comparative and general--Possessives; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: Possession is a universal domain, that is, any human language can be expected to have conventionalized expressions for it.