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By Leon Stassen

ISBN-10: 0199211655

ISBN-13: 9780199211654

this can be the 1st accomplished remedy of the thoughts hired within the world's languages to precise predicative ownership, as in "the boy has a bat". It offers the result of the author's fifteen-year examine undertaking at the topic. Predicative ownership is the resource of many grammaticalization paths - as within the English excellent demanding shaped from to have - and its typology is a vital key to realizing the structural number of the world's languages and the way they alter. Drawing on info from a few four hundred languages representing the entire world's language households, so much of which lack a detailed such as the verb to have, Professor Stassen goals (a) to set up a typology of 4 uncomplicated different types of predicative ownership, (b) to find and describe the techniques wherein ordinary buildings could be transformed, and (c) to discover hyperlinks among the typology of predicative ownership and different typologies so as to display styles of interdependence. He exhibits, for instance, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the best way a language officially encodes a series like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with how it encodes predicative ownership. via this and different hyperlinks the writer units up a unmarried common version so as to account for all morphosyntactic version in predicative ownership present in the languages of the realm, together with styles of version over the years.

Predicative Possession will curiosity students and complex scholars of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.

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