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Author(s): Doris L. Payne (Ed.), Immanuel Barshi (Ed.)
ISBN(s): 9789027229410, 9027229414
Edition: 1st
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Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9027229414 

ISBN 13: 9789027229410

Author: Doris L. Payne, Immanuel Barshi

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as “have” or “own”. In many cases, EPCs appear to “break the rules” about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.

Table of contents:

I. Introduction
External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why

II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession
External Possession and Language Processes
External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic Perspective

III. Comparative Studies
Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional Analysis
External Possession in a European Areal Perspective
Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession Construction

IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects
External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz’utujil
The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages
External Possession in Creek
Chickasaw Subjecthood

V. The Breadth of External Possession
External Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument Structure
“Where” rather than “What”: Incorporation of ‘Parts’ in Totonac
External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms
Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi
External Possession in Sahaptian
External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan Languages
On the Properties of Emai Possessors
From Interest to Ownership: a Constructional View of External Possessors
External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian
Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have Any

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