Gebundenes Buch

Possession and Ownership

A Cross-Linguistic Typology

Herausgeber: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y; Dixon, R M W

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is a Distinguished Professor and Research Leader at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. Her books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), and The Languages of the Amazon (2012), all published by OUP. R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. His books include Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP 2002), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP 2004), winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize, A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2nd edn OUP 2005), and Basic Linguistic Theory , volumes 1-3 (OUP 2010-12).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660223
• ISBN-10: 0199660220
• Artikelnr.: 35331838