The expression of possession / edited by William B. McGregor.

Other author McGregor, William, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
Description435 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesThe 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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LCCN 2009038372
ISBN9783110184372 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN3110184370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9783110184389 (pb)
ISBN3110184389 (pb)

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