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Title Dimensions of possession / edited by Irène Baron, Michael Herslund, Finn Sorensen
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2001

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 335 pages)
Series Typological studies in language ; v. 47
Typological studies in language ; v. 47
Contents Introduction: Dimensions of possession / Michael Herslund and Irene Baron -- 1. The operational basis of possession: A dimensional approach revisited / Hansjakob Seiler -- 2. The concept of possession in Danish grammar / Ole Togeby -- 3. Possession spaces in Danish / Finn Sorensen -- 4. The verb have in Nyulnyulan languages / William McGregor -- 5. Semantics of the verb have / Irene Baron and Michael Herslund -- 6. Possessum-oriented and possessor-oriented constructions in Russian / Per Durst-Andersen -- 7. Datives and comitatives as neighbouring spouses. The case of indirect objects and comitatives in Danish / Lars Heltoft -- 8. Towards a typology of French NP de NP structures or how much possession is there in complex noun phrases with de in French? / Inge Bartning -- 9. Spanish N de N structures from a cognitive perspective / Henrik Hoeg Muller -- 10. The grammatical category "Possession" and the part-whole relation in French / Martin Riegel -- 11. Kinship in grammar / Osten Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- 12. (In)alienability and (in)determination in Portuguese / Anne-Marie Spanoghe -- 13. Possessives with extensive use: A source of definite articles? / Kari Fraurud -- 14. Possessors and experiencers in Classical Latin / A. Machtelt Bolkestein -- 15. The difference a category makes in the expression of possession and inalienability / Marianne Mithun -- 16. Ways of explaining possession / Bernd Heine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives
Possessieve constructies.
Form Electronic book
Author Baron, Irène.
Herslund, Michael.
Sørensen, Finn, 1942-
ISBN 9789027298010
9027298017
1282162357
9781282162358
9786612162350
661216235X