The expression of possession

This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has. Read more…
Content: 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.