Predicative Possession by Leon Stassen

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This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession. It examines their interdependence with other typologies, and explores varieties of related grammaticalization processes.

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Predicative Possession by Leon Stassen

This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession. It examines their interdependence with other typologies, and explores varieties of related grammaticalization processes.
Leon Stassen is Senior Lecturer in General Linguistics at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, and Professor of Language Typology at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of Instransitive Predication (OUP 1997).
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ISBN 13 9780199211654
ISBN 10 0199211655
Title Predicative Possession
Author Leon Stassen
Series Oxford Studies In Typology And Linguistic Theory
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2009-05-07
Number of pages 832
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