Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia Hardback
Edited by Lars (University of Mainz) Johanson, Lidia Federica (University of Bremen/University of Cologne) Mazzitelli, Irina (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Institute of Philology, Siberian Division of Russian A Nevskaya
Part of the Studies in Language Companion Series series
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Description
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (Uralic, Turkic, Indo-European and Caucasian), with a few excursions into other parts of the world.
Some papers engage in typological comparisons, both within and beyond the borders of individual language families focusing on issues of motivation; meaning and forms used in expressing possession; typology of belong constructions; marking possession in possessor chains; non-canonical possessives and their relation to the category of familiarity; metaphoric shifts of possessive semantics.
Others focus on possession in individual languages, offering new precious pieces of information on the linguistic expression of possession in lesser known languages, some of which are endangered and even unwritten.
The volume will be of interest to both general linguists and typologists as well as to experts/students of the individual languages or language families analyzed in the papers.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:405 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:05/03/2019
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- ISBN:9789027202048
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:405 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:05/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027202048
