Prominent interal possessors

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The work Prominent interal possessors represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Massey University Library, University of New Zealand. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Prominent interal possessors

Statement of responsibility

edited by András Bárány, Oliver Bond, and Irina Nikolaeva

Contributor

• Nikolaeva, Irina,
• Bond, Oliver,
• Bárány, András,

Subject

• Comparative linguistics
• Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives -- Cross-cultural studies
• Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses -- Cross-cultural studies

Genre

• Cross-cultural studies

Language

eng

Summary

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of the clause-level argument-like behaviour of internal possessors. It offers focused case studies of the syntactic, semantics, and pragmatics of the phenomenon in languages of the Americas, Eurasia, South Asia, and Australia, based on novel data collected by the authors

Member of

• Oxford linguistics

Dewey number

415

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford linguistics