Description: Possession and Ownership Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199660223, 978-0199660223 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: Possession and Ownership
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Possession and Ownership
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Anthropology
Item Height: 240 mm
Item Weight: 676 g
Type: Textbook
Author: R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
Item Width: 162 mm
Format: Hardcover