Author Lidia Federica Mazzitelli presents students, academics, and researchers with an examination of the constructions used to express predicative possession in both the Belarusian and Lithuanian languages. The author has organized the eight chapters that make up the main body of her text in three parts devoted to an introduction to possession, Belarusian and Lithuanian in context, and encoding predicative possession in Belarusian and Lithuanian. Chapters in the text are focused on defining possession, encoding possession in language, the sociolinguistic context of Belarusian and Lithuanian, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Lidia Federica Mazzitelli is a faculty member of the University of Bremen, Germany. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession. The work is written within a typological frame: the Belarusian and Lithuanian constructions are analyzed in the light of the typology of the possessive predicative constructions proposed by Heine (1997).
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