The Grammar of inalienability
Subtitle: a typological perspective on body part terms and the part-whole relation
By: edited by Hilary Chappell, William McGregor.
Contributors: Chappell, Hilary, 1955-; McGregory, William.
Series: Empirical approaches to language typology ;; 14
Publisher: M. de Gruyter
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 931
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives.; Human anatomy -- Nomenclature (Popular); Semantics, Comparative.; Language and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [893]-911) and indexes.
Based on papers presented at a workshop on "Body in parts in grammar," held during the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Conference at the University of New England in August 1988.