Predicative possession /
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780191568145 0191568147 1282268694 9781282268692 9786612268694 6612268697 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The domain of the inquiry
- Four basic types of predicative possession
- Non-standard variants
- Adnominalization
- Predicativization
- Transitivization
- Summary of part I
- In search of determinant factors
- Locational possessives
- With-possessives
- Topic possessives
- Have-possessives
- A model of predicative possession encoding.