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Author:   Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University) ,  R. M. W. Dixon (Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, ames Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780198723004

ISBN 10:   0198723008
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective 2: Isabelle Bril: Ownership, part-whole and other possessive-associated relations in Nelemwa 3: Gloria J. Gravelle: Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head language 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea 5: Alan Dench: Possession in Martuthunira 6: Lev Michael: Possession in Nanti 7: Mark W. Post: Possession and association in Galo language and culture 8: Yongxian Luo: Possessive constructions in Chinese 9: Anne Storch: Possession in Hone 10: Felix Ameka: Possession in Lipke 11: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Possession in Wandala 12: Michael Wood: Spirits of the forest, the wind, and new wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession 13: Rosita Henry: Being and belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea 14: R. M. W. Dixon: Possession and also ownership - vignettes

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This volume, the result of cooperation among eminent linguists and anthropologists, is a significant intellectual achievement. Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Project Muse 12/05/14

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her other major publications, with OUP, include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia(2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), and The Art of Grammar (forthcoming). R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2004;, paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010-12) and of an academic autobiography I am a linguist (Brill, 2011).

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