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The History of Predicative Possession in Slavic: Internal Development vs. Language Contact
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McAnallen, Julia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The languages of the world encode possession in a variety of ways. In Slavic languages, possession on the level of the clause, or predicative possession, is represented by two main encoding strategies. Most Slavic languages, including those in the West and South Slavic sub-groupings, use a "have" verb comparable to English have and German "haben."…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Diachronic Linguistics