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Approaches to Predicative Possession - The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric (Hardcover)
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Approaches to Predicative Possession - The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
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This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two
important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and
Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish,
Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish,
Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the
closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic
terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether
BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of
the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book
takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and
semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including
the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual
case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles &
Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches
to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our
understanding of predicative possession across languages, with
findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for
theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of
linguistics.
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