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Possession and Ownership (Hardcover)
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Possession and Ownership (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology, 6
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Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and
anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of
expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts
central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of
humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly divided into
three categories - ownership of property, whole-part relations
(such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship
relations. As Professor Aikhenvald shows in her extensive opening
essay, the same possessive noun or pronoun phrase is used in
English and in many other Indo-European languages to express
possession of all three kinds - as in "Ann and her husband Henry
live in the castle Henry's father built with his own hands" - but
that this is by no means the case in all languages. In some, for
example, the grammar expresses the inalienability of consanguineal
kinship and sometimes also of sacred or treasured objects.
Furthermore the degree to which possession and ownership are
conceived as the same (when possession is 100% of the law) differs
from one society to another, and this may be reflected in their
linguistic expression. Like others in the series this pioneering
book will be welcomed equally by linguists and anthropologists.
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