Ebook: Split possession : an areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe
Author: Thomas Stolz, et al
- Series: Studies in language companion series v. 101
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: John Benjamins
- City: Amsterdam
- Language: English
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This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the alienability correlation. These distinctions are grammatically relevant in many European languages because they require dedicatedRead more...