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Hi Sergey,</div>
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Only a quarter, roughly, of the languages of the world have a verb "to have".</div>
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WALS 117a is a good place to start:</div>
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<a href="https://wals.info/feature/117A#2/16.6/153.8" id="LPlnk122831">https://wals.info/feature/117A#2/16.6/153.8</a><br>
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Peter Bakker</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Fra:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> på vegne af Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 22. april 2020 13:25<br>
<b>Til:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] predicative possession</font>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">could you please advise me literature on the encoding of the notion HAVE/HAVING in the languages that, unlike English, do not have generally applicable and versatile HAVE-verbs?
I am interested in the grammaticalization paths in this semantic domain. (I suspect people call this field “predicative possession.”)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">Sergey</span></p>
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