The Grammar of Inalienability : : A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation /

The Grammar of Inalienability : : A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation / / ed. by Hilary Chappell, William McGregor.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
MitwirkendeR:
Ameka, Felix,
Bally, Charles,
Bavin, Edith L,
Burridge, Kate,
Chappell, Hilary,
Clark, Marybeth,
Crowley, Terry,
Evans, Nicholas,
Harvey, Mark,
Hosokawa, Komei,
Hyman, Larry M.,
Leeding, Velma J.,
Manoliu-Manea, Maria,
McGregor, William,
McKay, Graham R.,
Mithun, Marianne,
Neumann, Dorothea,
Osumi, Midori,
Thompson, Chad,
Tsunoda, Tasaku,
Walsh, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Chappell, Hilary,
McGregor, William,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1996
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (931 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
  • Preface
  • Map
  • Contents
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability
  • The expression of concepts of the personal domain and indivisibility in Indo-European languages
  • Part II: Languages of Australia
  • The syntax and semantics of body part incorporation in Mayali
  • Body parts in Warray
  • “My face am burning!”: quasi-passive, body parts, and related issues in Yawuru grammar and cultural concepts
  • Body parts and possession in Anindilyakwa
  • The grammar of nominal prefixing in Nyulnyul
  • Body parts, possession marking and nominal classes in Ndjébbana
  • Body parts in Murrinh-Patha: incorporation, grammar and metaphor
  • Part III: Languages of the Pacific
  • Inalienable possession in Paamese grammar
  • Body parts in Tinrin
  • Part IV: Languages of Asia
  • Inalienability and the personal domain in Mandarin Chinese discourse
  • Where do you feel? – Stative verbs and body-part terms in Mainland Southeast Asia
  • The possession cline in Japanese and other languages
  • Part V: Languages of North America
  • Multiple reflections of inalienability in Mohawk
  • On the grammar of body parts in Koyukon Athabaskan
  • Part VI: Languages of Europe
  • Degenerate cases of body parts in Middle Dutch
  • Inalienability and topicality in Romanian: Pragma-semantics of syntax
  • The dative and the grammar of body parts in German
  • Part VII: Languages of Africa
  • Body parts in Ewe grammar
  • Body parts in Acholi: alienable and inalienable distinctions and extended uses
  • The syntax of body parts in Haya
  • Part VIII: Bibliography
  • Bibliography on inalienability
  • Authors’ Adresses
  • Subject Index
  • Language Index
  • Author Index

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