Possession in languages of Europe and North and Central Asia / edited by Lars Johanson, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli, Irina Nevskaya.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' introduction -- Expressing "possession": motivations, meanings, and forms / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Predicative possession in revived Cornish / Deborah Arbes -- Predicative possession in South Saami / Nobufumi Inaba and Rogier Blokland -- Possessive chains and Possessor Camouflage / Bernard Comrie -- On Turkish non-canonical possessives / Éva Á. Csató -- Predicative possession in Oghuz and Kipchak Turkic languages / Birsel Karakoç -- Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in spoken Czech / Jan Krivan -- Predicative possession in North Saami and Norwegian / Lidia Federica Mazzitelli -- Possession and ownership in Modern Uyghur / Aminem Memtimin -- Superlative readings of possessive constructions in Turkic: A comparative perspective / Irina Nevskaya and Saule Tazhibayeva -- Possession in Khinalug / Monika Rind-Pawlowski -- A diachronic perspective on alienability splits in Icelandic attributive possession / Susanne Schuster -- Grammaticalization of possessive markers in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt / Natalia Serdobolskaya, Maria Usacheva and Timofey Arkhangelskiy -- On belonging: Preliminary thoughts on the typology of belong-constructions / Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych -- Competing possessive constructions in Late Latin documents from Italy / Cecilia Valentini -- Index.

Intro; Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Editors' introduction; 1. Possession: A still interesting topic; 2. This volume: An overview; References; Expressing 'possession': Motivations, meanings, and forms; 1. Possession, ownership, and association; 2. Forms and meanings in possessive constructions: Iconic and economic motivation; 2.1 Iconic motivation in expressing possession: Some examples; 2.2 Iconic motivation and the specificity of a noun referent; 2.3 Economic motivation in possessive constructions

2.4 The special status of speech act participants2.5 Non-possessive meanings in possessive constructions; 3. How the expression of possession reflects societal practices; 4. Summary; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References; Predicative possession in revived Cornish; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpus study and field research; 3. Previous findings revisited; 4. How to have things in Cornish; 4.1 a'm beus; 4.2 kavoes; 4.3 The Goal schema; 4.4 The Companion schema; 4.5 The Goal schema (short form); 4.6 The Location schema; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgment; Primary sources; References

On Turkish non-canonical possessives1. Introduction; 2. Canonical vs. non-canonical possessives; 2.1 Types of semantic relations between possessor and possessee in canonical possessives; 2.2 The semantic relation between possessor and possessee in non-canonical possessives; 3. Possessive classification: An alienable vs. inalienable distinction?; 4. Marking familiarity; 4.1 Two types of familiarity; 5. Potential semantic contributions of possessive suffixes; 5.1 Referential properties; 5.2 Connotations; 5.3 Syntactic properties; 5.4 Non-canonical 'have' clauses; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments

2. Clauses based on the non-verbal predicate {bar}2.1 {bar} in existence and possessive clauses; 2.2 Combinations of {bar} with copular markers; 2.3 Possessor marking in {bar} type of clauses; 3. Clauses based on the verbal predicate {bol}; 3.1 The multifunctional verb {bol}; 3.2 {bol} in possessive clauses; 4. Distribution of {bar} and {bol}; 5. Summary; Abbreviations; References; Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in spoken Czech; 1. Introduction: Possessive constructions in Czech; 2. Attributive possession in Czech; 2.1 Formal properties; 2.2 Semantics

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