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[...]... Contents 11 .9 Conclusion 12 Have-Possessives 12 .1 12.2 12 .3 12 .4 12 .5 12 .6 12 .7 12 .8 12 .9 12 .10 12 .11 12 .12 12 .13 12 .14 Introduction Indo-European Further Eurasia Austronesian and Papuan Australian North America Central America South America Khoisan Afro-Asiatic Nilo-Saharan Niger-Kordofanian Creoles Conclusion Part III A Model of Predicative Possession Encoding 13 A model of predicative possession. .. possessive relation between possessor and possessee is 10 Heine (19 97: 38) credits this insight to Bugenhagen (19 86: 12 8) 11 The literature contains numerous alternative terms for alienable possession, such as ‘Permanent Possession (Miller and Johnson Laird 19 76), ‘Accidental Possession (Ultan 19 78), ‘Acquired Posses sion’ (Seiler 19 83) and ‘Transferable Possession (Nichols 19 92) All these terms capture... and Bisang et al (2004) 6 The typology of predicative possession (2) Swahili (Niger-Kordofanian, East Bantu) a Possession: Wa-na pesa they-be.with money ‘They have money’ (Heine 19 97: 18 9) b Progressive: Wa-na-ku-la they-be.with-inf-eat ‘They are eating’ (Heine 19 97: 18 9) (3) English (Indo-European, West Germanic) a Possession: I have a motorcycle (own data) b Deontic modality: I have to work (own... through space and time’ (Heine and Kuteva 2002: 2) Publications which document the development of grammaticalization theory over the last thirty years are Lehmann (19 82, 19 95), Traugott and Heine (19 91) , Heine et al (19 91) , Pagliuca (19 94), Hopper and Traugott (2003), Gildea (2000), Heine and Kuteva (2002), Fischer et al (2004), and Bisang et al (2004) 6 The typology of predicative possession (2)... others), transitivity (Hopper and Thompson 19 80; for an overview of the literature see Naess 2007), ergativity (Dixon 19 94), voice systems (Klaiman 19 91, Kemmer 19 93), and causativity (Comrie 19 89, Song 19 96) Explicit discussions of the content of the notion of Control can be found in, among others, Brennenstuhl (19 76), Farkas (19 88), and Klaiman (19 88) The domain of the inquiry 15 or terminating the possessive... locational and possessive encoding is clearly visible will be presented in abundance throughout this book At this point, I will limit myself to just a few examples, taken from such diverse languages as Khalkha, Hausa, Fijian, and Sango (16 ) Khalkha (Altaic, Mongolian) a Gadazar-ing dzurag xana-da baina region-gen picture wall-on be.pres ‘The map is on the wall’ (Poppe 19 51: 61) b Na-d olon mori bajna 1sg-at... mai Niu Siladi pres stand art Samu dir New Zealand ‘Samu is in New Zealand’ (Milner 19 56: 15 1) b Sa tu vei au e dua na isele perf stand to me pred one art knife ‘I have a knife’ (lit ‘To me stands/is one knife’) (Churchward 19 40: 40) (19 ) Sango (Niger-Kordofanian, Ubangian) ˆ a Mbi eke na l’hopital 1sg be loc hospital ‘I am in the hospital’ (Samarin 19 66: 17 9) b Lo eke na bOng O he be with garment ‘He... encoding 13 .1 13.2 13 .3 13 .4 13 .5 13 .6 13 .7 Introduction Preliminaries The underlying structure of predicative possession Deranking languages Balancing languages Potential ambiguity and the Have-Possessive Conclusion Appendix A Alphabetical listing of the sample Appendix B Typological stratiWcation of the sample References Index of Languages Index of Subjects 559 560 560 560 582 587 596 606 619 634 655... ‘The Arabs have elephants’ (Petraris 19 14: 44) With regard to this contrast, authors like Meillet (19 23), Locker (19 54), ˇ ¨ Lofstedt (19 63), and Isacenko (19 74) held the following two claims to be true: (a) Have-encoding is typically Indo-European; it does not occur outside this language family The domain of the inquiry 9 (b) Proto-Indo-European was a be-language Have-encoding is a later innovation,... horses’) (Street 19 63: 16 3) The domain of the inquiry (17 ) 13 Hausa (Afro-Asiatic, Chadic) a Akwai yara a gida exist child.pl at house ‘There are children at home’ (Kraft and Kirk-Greene 19 73: 66) b Akwai mota gare shi exist car with/at him ‘He has a car’ (lit ‘There is a car at/with him’) (Cowan and Schuh 19 76: 69) (18 ) Fijian (Austronesian, East Oceanic) a E tu ko Samu mai Niu Siladi pres stand art Samu . 428 10 .10 Conclusion 430 11 Topic Possessives 4 31 11. 1 Introduction 4 31 11. 2 East and south-east Asia 432 11 .3 Austronesian 453 11 .4 New Guinea and Northern Australia 475 11 .5 North America 488 11 .6. Austronesian and Papuan 587 12 .5 Australian 596 12 .6 North America 606 12 .7 Central America 619 12 .8 South America 634 12 .9 Khoisan 655 12 .10 Afro-Asiatic 657 12 .11 Nilo-Saharan 663 12 .12 Niger-Kordofanian. America 488 11 .6 Central America 512 11 .7 South America 530 Contents ix 11 .9 Conclusion 559 12 Have-Possessives 560 12 .1 Introduction 560 12 .2 Indo-European 560 12 .3 Further Eurasia 582 12 .4 Austronesian