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Title Prominent internal possessors / edited by András Bárány, Oliver Bond, and Irina Nikolaeva
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Towards a typology of prominent internal possessors / Irina Nikolaeva, András Bárány, Oliver Bond -- The syntax of possessor prominence in Maithili / Yogendra P. Yadava, Oliver Bond, Irina Nikolaeva, Sandy Ritchie -- Prominent possessor indexing in Gurindji / Oliver Bond, Felicity Meakins, Rachel Nordlinger -- Disjoint and reflexive prominent internal possessor constructions in Chimane / Sandy Ritchie -- Extended agreement in Oneida (Iroquoian) / Bond Jean-Pierre Koenig, Karin Michelson -- Conditions on prominent internal possessors in Turkish / Asli Göksel, Balkiz Öztürk -- Prominent internal possessors in Bashkir / Sergey Say -- Proximate possessors / Irina Nikolaeva, András Bárány
Summary This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of the clause-level argument-like behaviour of internal possessors. It offers focused case studies of the syntactic, semantics, and pragmatics of the phenomenon in languages of the Americas, Eurasia, South Asia, and Australia, based on novel data collected by the authors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives -- Cross-cultural studies
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses -- Cross-cultural studies
Comparative linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Comparative linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives
Genre/Form Electronic books
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Bárány, András, editor.
Bond, Oliver, editor.
Nikolaeva, Irina, editor
ISBN 9780192540157
0192540157
9780191850103
0191850101