Possession in languages of Europe and North and Central Asia
Bibliographic Information
Possession in languages of Europe and North and Central Asia
edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli, Irina Nevskaya
(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 206)
John Benjamins, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (Uralic, Turkic, Indo-European and Caucasian), with a few excursions into other parts of the world. Some papers engage in typological comparisons, both within and beyond the borders of individual language families focusing on issues of motivation; meaning and forms used in expressing possession; typology of belong constructions; marking possession in possessor chains; non-canonical possessives and their relation to the category of familiarity; metaphoric shifts of possessive semantics. Others focus on possession in individual languages, offering new precious pieces of information on the linguistic expression of possession in lesser known languages, some of which are endangered and even unwritten. The volume will be of interest to both general linguists and typologists as well as to experts/students of the individual languages or language families analyzed in the papers.
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