Possession and Ownership

A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-966022-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Explorations in Linguistic Typology

Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly divided into three categories - ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations. As Professor
Aikhenvald shows in her extensive opening essay, the same possessive noun or pronoun phrase is used in English and in many other Indo-European languages to express possession of all three kinds - as in "Ann and her husband Henry live in the castle Henry's father built with his own hands" - but that this is by no
means the case in all languages. In some, for example, the grammar expresses the inalienability of consanguineal kinship and sometimes also of sacred or treasured objects. Furthermore the degree to which possession and ownership are conceived as the same (when possession is 100% of the law) differs from one society to another, and this may be reflected in their linguistic expression. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be welcomed equally by linguists and
anthropologists.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of the syntax-semantics interface in linguistics and of the interactions of language and culture in linguistics and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y

Dixon, R M W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and Ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective
2: Isabelle Bril: Ownership, part-whole and Other Possessive-associated Relations in Nêlêmwa
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

Über Autor(innen)

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is a Distinguished Professor and Research Leader at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. Her books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), and The Languages of the Amazon (2012), all published by OUP.

Dixon, R M W
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. His books include Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP 2002), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP 2004), winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize, A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2nd edn OUP 2005), and Basic Linguistic Theory, volumes 1-3 (OUP 2010-12).