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Informationen zum Autor Leon Stassen is Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and Professor of Language Typology at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of Instransitive Predication (OUP 1997). Klappentext This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession. It examines their interdependence with other typologies, and explores varieties of related grammaticalization processes. Zusammenfassung 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 of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and (c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over time. Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: The Typology of Predicative Possession 1: The Domain of the Inquiry 2: Four Basic Types of Predicative Possession 3: Non-Standard Variants 4: Adnominalization 5: Predicativization 6: Transitivization 7: Summary Part Two: Determinant Factors 8: In Search of Determinant Factors 9: Locational Possessives 10: With-Possessives 11: Topic Possessives 12: Have-Possessives Part Three: A Model of Predicative Possession Encoding 13: A Model of predicative Possession Encoding Notes Appendix References Index of Subjects Index of Languages ...