External Possession
Published on 15. August 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
573 pages
978-1-55619-655-3 (ISBN)
Description
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as "have" or "own". In many cases, EPCs appear to "break the rules" about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-655-3 (9781556196553)
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Persons
Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. I. Introdution; 3. External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why (by Payne, Doris L.); 4. II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession; 5. External Possession and Language Processes (by Singer, Murray); 6. External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic Perspective (by Uehara, Keiko); 7. III. Comparative Studies; 8. Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional Analysis (by Velazquez-Castillo, Maura); 9. External Possession in a European Areal Perspective (by Haspelmath, Martin); 10. Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession Construction (by Gerdts, Donna B.); 11. IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects; 12. External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz'utujil (by Aissen, Judith); 13. The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages (by Chappell, Hilary); 14. External Possession in Creek (by Martin, Jack B.); 15. Chickasaw Subjecthood (by Munro, Pamela); 16. V. The Breadth of External Possession; 17. External Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument Structure (by Baker, Mark C.); 18. "Where" rather than "What": Incorporation of 'Parts' in Totonac (by Levy, Paulette); 19. External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms (by Maldonado, Roberto Zavala); 20. Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi (by Donohue, Mark); 21. External Possession in Sahaptian (by Rude, Noel); 22. External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan Languages (by McGregor, William B.); 23. On the Properties of Emai Possessors (by Schaefer, Ronald P.); 24. From Interest to Ownership: a Constructional View of External Possessors (by Fried, Mirjam); 25. External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian (by Podlesskaya, Vera I.); 26. Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have Any (by Polinsky, Maria); 27. Authors Index; 28. Language Index; 29. Subject Index