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Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization

By Bernd Heine

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521550378, 9780521550376
LCC
P299.P67 H45 1997
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
1 MB (1448131 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
289\0
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Bernd Heine argues that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived. The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the possessive constructions to be found in the world's languages can be traced back to a small set of basic conceptual patterns. Using grammaticalization theory Heine describes how each affects the word order and morphosyntax of the resulting possessive construction.

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