The expression of possession / edited by William B. McGregor.
| Other author | McGregor, William, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, |
| Description | 435 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The expression of cognitive categories ; 2 Expression of cognitive categories ; 2. ^A1248879 |
| Contents | Introduction / William B. McGregor -- English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Peter Willemse, Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert -- On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Jan Rijkhoff -- Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Doris Payne -- Learning to encode possession / Sonja Eisenbeiss, Ayumi Matsuo and Ingrid Sonnenstuhl -- Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: a constructional account / Mirjam Fried -- Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Frank Lichtenberk -- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Miriam van Staden -- Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Hein van der Voort -- Possession in the visual-gestural modality: how possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Kearsy Cormier and Jordan Fenlon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009038372 |
| ISBN | 9783110184372 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3110184370 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9783110184389 (pb) |
| ISBN | 3110184389 (pb) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |