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Possession and Ownership(Explorations in Linguistic Typology Vol.6) H 342 p. 12

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Dixon, R. M. W.  編
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発行年月 2012年12月
出版社/提供元
Oxford University Press
出版国 イギリス
言語 英語
媒体 冊子
装丁 hardcover
ページ数/巻数 342 p., Tables
ジャンル 洋書/人文科学/言語学 /言語学:概論
ISBN 9780199660223
商品コード 1009314433
本の性格 学術書
新刊案内掲載月 2013年02月
書評掲載誌 Language 2014/03
商品URLhttps://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=1009314433

著者紹介

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.(編者):Cairns Institute, James Cook University
Dixon, R. M. W.(編者):Cairns Institute, James Cook University

内容

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.