Predicative Possession

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 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Leon Stassen, Leon (Radboud University and University of Utrecht) Stassen, Stassen Leon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199211654
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921165-4
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics