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Possessives in English - An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar (Paperback, Revised)
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Possessives in English - An Exploration in Cognitive Grammar (Paperback, Revised)
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The possessive morpheme in English occurs in a variety of
constructions - prenominal possessives (the man's hat, the plane's
arrival), postnominal possessives (a friend of mine), -ing
nominalizations (without my saying so), and possessive compounds (a
girls' school). What does this morpheme actually mean, what is its
syntactic category, what is its semantic contribution to the
expressions in which it occurs, and how can various restrictions on
its use be accounted for? Dr Taylor proposes a unitary account of
the possessive morpheme. He takes as his theoretical framework
Cognitive Grammar, as developed over the past 15 years by Ronald
Langacker and others. In the earlier chapters of the book he
introduces and motivates the conceptual apparatus of the theory,
and in later chapters he develops a coherent account of the full
range of possessive constructions in English. A special feature of
the book is that it offers a wide-ranging critique of both
traditional and more recent accounts of possessive expressions.
Focusing particularly on Government and Binding theory, the author
highlights the profound conceptual differences underlying the two
theoretical approaches represented by GB and Cognitive Grammar,
while also observing some points of convergence between them.
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