Table of Contents

1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective
2: Isabelle Bril: Ownership, part-whole and other possessive-associated relations in Nêlêmwa
3: Gloria J. Gravelle: Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head language
4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Possession and ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea
5: Alan Dench: Possession in Martuthunira
6: Lev Michael: Possession in Nanti
7: Mark W. Post: Possession and association in Galo language and culture
8: Yongxian Luo: Possessive constructions in Chinese
9: Anne Storch: Possession in Hone
10: Felix Ameka: Possession in Lipke
11: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Possession in Wandala
12: Michael Wood: Spirits of the forest, the wind, and new wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession
13: Rosita Henry: Being and belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea
14: R. M. W. Dixon: Possession and also ownership - vignettes

About the Author

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South
American languages. Her other major publications, with OUP, include Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia(2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu
Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and Commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), and The Art of Grammar (forthcoming). R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern
Amazonia (Oxford University Press, 2004;, paperback 2011) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also the author of the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (Oxford
University Press, 2010-12) and of an academic autobiography I am a linguist (Brill, 2011).

Reviews

`This volume, the result of cooperation among eminent linguists and anthropologists, is a significant intellectual achievement.'
Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Project Muse 12/05/14