The Grammar of Inalienability
A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2011
XIII, 931 pages
978-3-11-082213-7 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2011
Language
English
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Berlin/Boston
Germany
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de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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, 1 map.
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978-3-11-082213-7 (9783110822137)
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Hilary Chappell | William Mcgregor
The Grammar of Inalienability
A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation
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01/1996
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€399.00
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Hilary Chappell | William Mcgregor
The Grammar of Inalienability
A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation
Book
11/1995
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€290.00
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Preface
- Map
- Part I: Introduction
- Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability
- The expression of concepts of the personal domain and indivisibility in Indo-European languages
- Part II: Languages of Australia
- The syntax and semantics of body part incorporation in Mayali
- Body parts in Warray
- "My face am burning!": quasi-passive, body parts, and related issues in Yawuru grammar and cultural concepts
- Body parts and possession in Anindilyakwa
- The grammar of nominal prefixing in Nyulnyul
- Body parts, possession marking and nominal classes in Ndjébbana
- Body parts in Murrinh-Patha: incorporation, grammar and metaphor
- Part III: Languages of the Pacific
- Inalienable possession in Paamese grammar
- Body parts in Tinrin
- Part IV: Languages of Asia
- Inalienability and the personal domain in Mandarin Chinese discourse
- Where do you feel? - Stative verbs and body-part terms in Mainland Southeast Asia
- The possession cline in Japanese and other languages
- Part V: Languages of North America
- Multiple reflections of inalienability in Mohawk
- On the grammar of body parts in Koyukon Athabaskan
- Part VI: Languages of Europe
- Degenerate cases of body parts in Middle Dutch
- Inalienability and topicality in Romanian: Pragma-semantics of syntax
- The dative and the grammar of body parts in German
- Part VII: Languages of Africa
- Body parts in Ewe grammar
- Body parts in Acholi: alienable and inalienable distinctions and extended uses
- The syntax of body parts in Haya
- Part VIII: Bibliography
- Bibliography on inalienability
- Authors' Adresses
- Subject Index
- Language Index
- Author Index
