McGregor The Expression of Possession

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-021323-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 435 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: The Expression of Cognitive Categories (ECC)

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Students of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGregor, William B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Introduction ;8
3;English possessives as reference- point constructions and their function in the discourse ;20
4;On the co- variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English ;58
5;Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa ;114
6;Learning to encode possession ;150
7;Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: A constructional account ;220
8;Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic ;256
9;Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore;300
10;Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon ;350
11;Possession in the visual-gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language ;396
12;Contributors;430
13;Index of subjects;432
14;Index of languages;437
15;Index of persons;439

Über Autor(innen)

William McGregor, Aarhus University, Denmark.