24.940, Books: Possession in Polish Discourse: Malczewska-Webb

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Subject: 24.940, Books: Possession in Polish Discourse: Malczewska-Webb

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:44:14
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Possession in Polish Discourse: Malczewska-Webb

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Title: Possession in Polish Discourse 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 38  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu 

Author: Beata Malczewska-Webb

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862884131 Pages: 228 Price: Europe EURO 72.80

Abstract:

Linguistic possession deals with the ways the concept of possession  is
expressed in a language through syntactic constructions and possessive
relationships. This complex phenomenon is difficult to define due to its high
variability within particular languages and cross-linguistically. This work
examines possession in Polish as a complete system of a single language.
First, it aims to study the syntactic structures encoding possession in Polish
written discourse in order to examine possessive constructions employed in a
variety of contexts. The second aim is to examine the semantic features of the
possessive constructions in Polish as they appear in a corpus of actual
written language. Several methods have been combined to achieve these aims and
Heine’s (1997a) cognitive framework of possessive notions was chosen for
examining the semantics of possessive constructions. The first source of data,
the book corpus, consists of three types of texts  representing contemporary
Polish in topical contexts and providing examples of authentic planned
discourse. The second source of data is an extensive corpus of Polish
available on-line. The quantitative  view of possessive constructions
demonstrated their high diversity; however, few constructions expressed
possession systematically. The findings showed that Polish makes distinctions
in the way it encodes possession. The studies of Polish demonstrate how the
universal framework (Heine 1997a) works for investigating a specific language.
The detailed view of the possessive domain in Polish is a product of a dynamic
interrelationship between the syntactic and semantic fields.

Beata Malczewska-Webb works at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia where
she lectures in linguistics and language teacher education (TESOL). She gained
her degrees in education and linguistics in Poland and Australia. Apart from
the cross-linguistic expression of possession, her other research interests
include internationalisation of Australian and global education and teaching
in linguistically and culturally diverse groups.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Slavic Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Polish (pol)

Written In: English  (eng)

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