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
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Acknowledgments | p. ix
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I. Introdution
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External Possession: What, Where, How, and WhyDoris L. Payne and Immanuel Barshi | p. 3
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II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession
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External Possession and Language ProcessesMurray Singer | p. 33
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External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic PerspectiveKeiko Uehara | p. 45
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III. Comparative Studies
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Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional AnalysisMaura Velázquez-Castillo | p. 77
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External Possession in a European Areal PerspectiveMartin Haspelmath | p. 109
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Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession ConstructionDonna B. Gerdts | p. 137
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IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects
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External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz’utujilJudith Aissen | p. 167
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The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic LanguagesHilary Chappell | p. 195
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External Possession in CreekJack B. Martin | p. 229
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Chickasaw SubjecthoodPamela Munro | p. 251
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V. The Breadth of External Possession
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External Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument StructureMark C. Baker | p. 293
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“Where” rather than “What”: Incorporation of ‘Parts’ in TotonacPaulette Levy | p. 325
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External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational TermsRoberto Zavala Maldonado | p. 339
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Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang BesiMark Donohue | p. 373
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External Possession in SahaptianNoel Rude | p. 403
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External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan LanguagesWilliam B. McGregor | p. 429
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On the Properties of Emai PossessorsRonald P. Schaefer | p. 449
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From Interest to Ownership: a Constructional View of External PossessorsMirjam Fried | p. 473
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External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in RussianVera I. Podlesskaya and Ekaterina V. Rakhilina | p. 505
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Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have AnyMaria Polinsky and Bernard Comrie | p. 523
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Authors Index | p. 543
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Language Index | p. 549
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Subject Index | p. 555
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