Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be equally valued in linguistics and anthropology.
Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be equally valued in linguistics and anthropology.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her other major publications, with OUP, include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia(2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), and The Art of Grammar (forthcoming). R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2004;, paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010-12) and of an academic autobiography I am a linguist (Brill, 2011).
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* 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective * 2: Isabelle Bril: Ownership, part-whole and other possessive-associated relations in Nêlêmwa * 3: Gloria J. Gravelle: Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head language * 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea * 5: Alan Dench: Possession in Martuthunira * 6: Lev Michael: Possession in Nanti * 7: Mark W. Post: Possession and association in Galo language and culture * 8: Yongxian Luo: Possessive constructions in Chinese * 9: Anne Storch: Possession in Hone * 10: Felix Ameka: Possession in Lipke * 11: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Possession in Wandala * 12: Michael Wood: Spirits of the forest, the wind, and new wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession * 13: Rosita Henry: Being and belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea * 14: R. M. W. Dixon: Possession and also ownership - vignettes
* 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective * 2: Isabelle Bril: Ownership, part-whole and other possessive-associated relations in Nêlêmwa * 3: Gloria J. Gravelle: Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head language * 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea * 5: Alan Dench: Possession in Martuthunira * 6: Lev Michael: Possession in Nanti * 7: Mark W. Post: Possession and association in Galo language and culture * 8: Yongxian Luo: Possessive constructions in Chinese * 9: Anne Storch: Possession in Hone * 10: Felix Ameka: Possession in Lipke * 11: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Possession in Wandala * 12: Michael Wood: Spirits of the forest, the wind, and new wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession * 13: Rosita Henry: Being and belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea * 14: R. M. W. Dixon: Possession and also ownership - vignettes
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