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For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic", with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntacti

Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order. --- Pragmatics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Word order --- Word order. --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatique --- Grammaire comparée --- Ordre des mots --- Pragmalinguistics --- Language and languages --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Order (Grammar) --- Philosophy --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order. --- Linguistics --- Philology --- LINGUISTIQUE --- SYNTAXE

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External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as "have" or "own"

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Possessives (Grammar) --- Possessives --- Possessive adjective --- Possessive case --- Possessive pronoun --- Adjective --- Case --- Pronoun --- Grammar --- Possessives. --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Handbook of Amazonian languages. 1

Langues indiennes d'Amérique --- Amazon River Region --- South American Indian languages --- Langues indiennes d'Amérique --- Amazon Valley --- Indians of South America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Languages. --- Ethnology --- Amazonia --- Languages --- Amazonie --- Langues

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This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal). There are two main aims. The first is to reveal something of the range of constructions employed cross-linguistically in the expression of possession, and second, to present an understanding of the possessive relation itself as a cognitive and linguistic phenomenon. A guiding principle in the selection of contributors has

Grammar, Comparative and general --Possessives. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Possessives --- Linguistics. --- Possessives. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Possessives (Grammar) --- Possessive adjective --- Possessive case --- Possessive pronoun --- Adjective --- Case --- Pronoun --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Possessives --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Language Typology. --- Morphology. --- Neurolinguistics. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Semantics. --- Syntax.