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Predicative Possession (Hardcover)
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Predicative Possession (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies
employed in the world's languages to express predicative
possession, as in "the boy has a bat." It presents the results of
the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject.
Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization
paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and
its typology is an important key to understanding the structural
variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on
data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language
families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to
have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four
basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe
the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and
(c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession
and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of
interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of
simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a
sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way
it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links
the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for
all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in
the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over
time.
Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced
students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology
and syntax.
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