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Possessive Descriptions

Part of the Dissertations in Linguistics S. series
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What do possessive noun phrases mean? Although possessives are one of the most commonly used construction types cross-linguistically, they have never received detailed or sustained study from a semantic point of view.

Taking work of Abney, May, and Heim as a starting point, this book develops a comprehensive analysis of the contribution of possessive NPs to the truth conditions of the sentences in which they occur.

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1881526720 / 9781881526728
Paperback
401.43
01/06/1995
United States
200 pages
152 x 228 mm, 294 grams
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