Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Expressing ‘possession’ 7
5. Predicative possession in revived Cornish 27
6. Possessive chains and Possessor Camouflage 51
7. On Turkish non-canonical possessives 85
8. Predicative possession in South Saami 103
9. Predicative possession in Oghuz and Kipchak Turkic languages 125
10. Pronominal and adjectival attributive possession in spoken Czech 149
11. Predicative possession in North Saami and Norwegian 169
12. Possession and ownership in Modern Uyghur 187
13. Superlative readings of possessive constructions in Turkic 205
14. Possession in Khinalug 239
15. A diachronic perspective on alienability splits in Icelandic attributive possession 267
16. Grammaticalization of possessive markers in the Beserman dialect of Udmurt 291
17. On belonging 313
18. Competing possessive constructions in Late Latin documents from Italy 365
19. Languages and language families and areas 393
20. Name index 397
21. Subject index 401