New Book - Baron: Dimensions of Possession

Paul Peranteau paul at BENJAMINS.COM
Thu Jan 31 16:12:50 UTC 2002


Hello. This is a new book from John Benjmains Publishing which should
interest functionalists.

Dimensions of Possession
Irene BARON, Michael HERSLUND and Finn SØRENSEN (Copenhagen Business
School) (eds.)

Typological Studies in Language 47
2001. vi, 337 pp.  Hardcover
US & Canada: 1 58811 062 1 / USD 86.00
Rest of world: 90 272 2951 1 / EUR 95.00

Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than 'possession'. The present
collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in
Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon;
the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and
other possessive structures; the interaction of verbal and nominal
constructions; the semantic and textual implications of the
alienable/inalienable distinction, etc.) and approaches (formal semantics;
functional semantics; and syntax as diachronic and typological
comparisons). The languages covered include both European languages such as
Danish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, and several
American, Australian, African and Asian languages. This volume in which the
contributing scholars have sought to examine as many 'dimensions' as
possible is of interest to all linguists, in particular those working in
the field of typology and functional approaches to language.

Contributions by: Michael Herslund & Irène Baron; Hansjakob Seiler; Ole
Togeby; Finn Sørensen; William McGregor; Irène Baron & Michael Herslund;
Per Durst-Andersen; Lars Heltoft; Inge Bartning; Henrik Høeg Müller; Martin
Riegel

Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com)
P O Box 27519                   Ph: 215 836-1200
Philadelphia PA 19118-0519      Fax: 215 836-1204
John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com



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