External Possession
Editors
| University of Oregon
| University of Oregon
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as “have” or “own”. In many cases, EPCs appear to “break the rules” about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.
[Typological Studies in Language, 39] 1999. ix, 573 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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I. Introdution
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3
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II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession
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45
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III. Comparative Studies
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IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects
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V. The Breadth of External Possession
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523
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Authors Index
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543
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Language Index
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549
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Subject Index
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555
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General