Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	John Benjamins Publishing Co
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Studies in Language Companion Series, 206
Release date:	March 2019
First published:	2019
Editors:	Lars Johanson • Lidia Federica Mazzitelli • Irina Nevskaya
Dimensions:	171 x 248 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	405
ISBN-13:	978-90-272-0204-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	90-272-0204-4
Barcode:	9789027202048

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