Approaches to Predicative Possession

Gréte Dalmi is Lecturer at the University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary.Jacek Witkos is Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.Piotr Ceglowski is Associate Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

• 1. Introduction, Gréte Dalmi (University of Technology, Hungary)2. Genitive of negation in Polish possessive and locative existential sentences: A testing tool for Case Overwriting and Case Projections and derivational phases, Jacek Witkos (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)3. Extraction of possessive NP-complements and the structure of the nominal domain in Polish, Piotr Ceglowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)4. The definiteness effect in Russian existential and possessive sentences, Olga Kagan (Ben Gurion University, Israel)5. Predicative possession in Belarusian, a mixed BE/HAVE language, Egor Tsedryk (Saint Mary’s University, Canada) 6. Predicative possession as a clause type in Finnish, Maria Vilkuna (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)7. The argument structure of BE-possessives in Hungarian, Gréte Dalmi (University of Technology, Hungary)8. Predicative possession in Permic, Nikolett F. Gulyás (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)9. Existential possession in Meadow Mari, Alexandra Simonenko (University of Ghent, Belgium)10. Predicative possessive constructions in Selkup dialects, Beáta Wagner-Nagy (University of Hamburg, Germany)11. Conclusion, Jacek Witkos (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)Index

An excellent volume presenting a set of interesting studies. Highly recommended for researchers and students of under-represented languages, language contact, language typology and generative grammar.