Possession: cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization
Auteur :
Heine, Bernd
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521550376
Date de publication :
23 oct. 1997
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,0 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
563 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. Heine 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 be traced back to a small set of basic conceptual patterns.