TY - BOOK ID - 76903098 TI - The grammar of possession : inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní PY - 1996 SN - 9027230366 9789027230362 9789027281982 902728198X 1283280418 9786613280411 PB - Philadelphia : Amsterdam ; John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - South American Indian languages KW - Guarani language KW - Abaneem language KW - Avanee language KW - Karani language KW - Guarani languages KW - Possessives. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:76903098 AB - The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, incorporation and possessor ascension in Guaraní, is an exhaustive study of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guaraní which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. Constructions analyzed in the book include adnominal and predicative possessive constructions, noun incorporation, and possessor ascension. Examples are drawn from a rich data base that incorporate native speaker intuitions and resources in the construction of illustrative linguistic forms as well as the analysis of the communicative use of ER -