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BL
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608369
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The expression of possession /\ edited by William B. McGregor.
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin ;New York :: Mouton de Gruyter,, c2009.
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| Series Statement
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The expression of cognitive categories ;; 2.
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435 p. :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm.
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9783110184372 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 3110184370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9783110184389 (pb)
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: 3110184389 (pb)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introduction / William B. McGregor -- English possessives as reference-point constructions and their function in the discourse / Peter Willemse, Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert -- On the co-variation between form and function of adnominal possessive modifiers in Dutch and English / Jan Rijkhoff -- Is possession mere location? Contrary evidence from Maa / Doris Payne -- Learning to encode possession / Sonja Eisenbeiss, Ayumi Matsuo and Ingrid Sonnenstuhl -- Plain vs. situated possession in Czech: a constructional account / Mirjam Fried -- Attributive possessive constructions in Oceanic / Frank Lichtenberk -- Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore / Miriam van Staden -- Possessive expressions in the Southwestern Amazon / Hein van der Voort -- Possession in the visual-gestural modality: how possession is expressed in British Sign Language / Kearsy Cormier and Jordan Fenlon.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Possessives.
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| Added Entry
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McGregor, William,1952-
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