This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric. Using data from the

This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative

A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for li

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