31.3146, Books: Approaches to Predicative Possession: Dalmi, Witkos, Ceglowski (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:06:06
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Approaches to Predicative Possession: Dalmi, Witkos, Ceglowski (eds.)

 


Title: Approaches to Predicative Possession 
Subtitle: The View from Slavic and Finno-Ugric 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/approaches-to-predicative-possession-9781350062467/ 


Editor: Gréte Dalmi
Editor: Jacek Witkos
Editor: Piotr Ceglowski

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350062481 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350062474 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350062467 Pages: 240 Price: ----  95.00


Abstract:

This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important,
yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. Using data from
the Slavic languages of Polish, Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric
languages of Finnish, Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as
well as the closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic terms.

Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether BE-possessives and
HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of the 'Possessive Parameter' or
are intrinsically related, this book takes a comparative approach to a whole
range of syntactic and semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions,
including the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual case studies
can be easily integrated into the Principles & Parameters framework in terms
of parametric variation. "Approaches to Predicative Possession" is an
important contribution to our understanding of predicative possession across
languages, with findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for theoretical
linguists, typologists, and graduate students of linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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