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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
I. Introdution
External Possession: What, Where, How, and Why3 II. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on External Possession
External Possession and Language Processes33 External Possession Constructions in Japanese: A Psycholinguistic Perspective45 III. Comparative Studies
Body-Part EP Constructions: A Cognitive/Functional Analysis77 External Possession in a European Areal Perspective109 Mapping Possessors: Parameterizing the External Possession Construction137 IV. External Possession, Topics, and Subjects
External Possessor and Logical Subject in Tz’utujil167 The Double Unaccusative Construction in Sinitic Languages195 External Possession in Creek229 V. The Breadth of External Possession
External Possession in Mohawk: Body Parts, Incorporation, and Argument Structure293 “Where” rather than “What”: Incorporation of ‘Parts’ in Totonac325 External Possessor in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean): Applicatives and Incorporation of Relational Terms339 Syntactic Roles vs. Semantic Roles: External Possession in Tukang Besi373 External Possession in Sahaptian403 External Possession Constructions in Nyulnyulan Languages429 On the Properties of Emai Possessors449 From Interest to Ownership: a Constructional View of External Possessors473 External Possession, Reflexivization and Body Parts in Russian505 Possessor Raising in a Language that Does Not Have Any523 Authors Index543
Language Index549
Subject Index555
