The Expression of Possession

This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has.
Content: 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.
Abstract: This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of th