Possession : cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization / Bernd Heine.

In this new work, Bernd Heine claims 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 po...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Heine, Bernd, 1939-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Series:	Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 83.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Possessives. Cognition. Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.