Overview

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.

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Author:   Doris L. Payne (University of Oregon) ,  Immanuel Barshi (University of Oregon)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   39
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9789027229380

ISBN 10:   9027229384
Pages:   573
Publication Date:   15 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. I. Introdution; 3. External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why (by Payne, Doris L.); 4. II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession; 5. External Possession and Language Processes (by Singer, Murray); 6. External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic Perspective (by Uehara, Keiko); 7. III. Comparative Studies; 8. Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional Analysis (by Velazquez-Castillo, Maura); 9. External Possession in a European Areal Perspective (by Haspelmath, Martin); 10. Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession Construction (by Gerdts, Donna B.); 11. IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects; 12. External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz'utujil (by Aissen, Judith); 13. The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages (by Chappell, Hilary); 14. External Possession in Creek (by Martin, Jack B.); 15. Chickasaw Subjecthood (by Munro, Pamela); 16. V. The Breadth of External Possession; 17. External Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument Structure (by Baker, Mark C.); 18. Where rather than What : Incorporation of 'Parts' in Totonac (by Levy, Paulette); 19. External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms (by Maldonado, Roberto Zavala); 20. Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi (by Donohue, Mark); 21. External Possession in Sahaptian (by Rude, Noel); 22. External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan Languages (by McGregor, William B.); 23. On the Properties of Emai Possessors (by Schaefer, Ronald P.); 24. From Interest to Ownership: a Constructional View of External Possessors (by Fried, Mirjam); 25. External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian (by Podlesskaya, Vera I.); 26. Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have Any (by Polinsky, Maria); 27. Authors Index; 28. Language Index; 29. Subject Index

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