Dimensions of Possession. [SERIES]: Typological Studies in Language [TSL] - Volume 35.

RARE collection of articles on the linguistic concept of possession, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998. ]CONTENTS[: Introduction: Dimensions of Possession - Michael Herslund and Irène Baron. 1. The operational basis possession: A dimensional approach revisited. 2. The concept of possession in Danish grammar - Ole Togeby. 3. Possession spaces in Danish - Finn Sorenesen. 4. The verb HAVE in Nyulnyulan language - William McGregor. 5. Semantics of the verb HAVE - Irène Baron and Michael Herslund. 6. Possessum-oriented and possessor-oriented constructions in Russian - Per Durst-Andersen. 7. Datives and comitatives as neighbouring spouses: The case of indirect objects and comitatives in Danish - Lars Heltoft. 8. Towards a typology of French NP de NP structures or how much possession is there in complex noun phrases with de in French? - Inge Bartning. 9. Spanish N de N structures from a cognitive perspective - Henrik Hoeg Müller. 10. The grammatical category "Possession" and the part-whole relation in French - Martin Riegel. 11. Kinship in grammar - Östen Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm. 12. (In)alienabilty and (in)determination in Portuguese - Anne-Marie Spanoghe. 13. Possessives with extensive use: A source of definite articles? - Kari Fraurud. 14. Possessors and experiences in Classical Latin - A. Machtelt Bolkestein. 15. The difference a category makes in the expression of possession and inalienability - Marianne Mithun. 16. Ways of explaining possession - Bernd Heine. 225x155mm. VI+337 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover. Cover corners and spine edges slightly rubbed. Previous owner`s small stamp on front whitepage upper corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, of interest to linguists, in particular those working in the field of typology and functional approaches to language, is in good condition. The book is in : English.…