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Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Possession Cognitive Sources Forces and Grammaticalization - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Author: Bernd Heine
Bernd Heine argues that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived. The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the possessive constructions to be found in the world's languages can b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521024136
ISBN-10: 0521024137
Publication Date: 2/13/2006
Pages: 292
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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