Books: 'Verbs of change of possession'

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Cognitive linguistics and lexical change: Motion verbs from Latin to Romance. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

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Chapman, Elwood N. Attitude: Your most priceless possession. 3rd ed. Menlo Park, Calif: Crisp Publications, Inc., 1995.

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Wil, McKnight, ed. Attitude: Your most priceless possession. 4th ed. Menlo Park, Calif: Crisp Learning, 2002.

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Chapman, Elwood N. Attitude: Your most priceless possession. Los Altos, Calif: Crisp Publications, 1987.

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Action, comparison, and change: A study in the semantics of verbs and adjectives. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986.

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Wittek, Angelika. Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: A case study of German child language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

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Victor Turner Revisited: Ritual as Social Change. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1991.

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Julia, Frost-Davies, ed. Debtor in possession financing orders line by line: A detailed look at debtor in possession financing orders and how to change them to meet your needs. [Boston, Mass.]: Aspatore Books, 2008.

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Larsson, Kent. Den plurala verbböjningen i äldre svenska: Studier i en språklig förändringsprocess = The inflection in the plural persons of verbs in older Swedish : studies in a linguistic process of change. Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitetet, 1988.

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Zhan you, ren zhi yu ren ji guan xi: Dui Zhongguo xiang cun zhi du bian qian de jing ji she hui xue fen xi = Possession, recognition, and personal network : an econ-sociological analysis of institutional change in China. Beijing Shi: Huaxia chu ban she, 2003.

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Resolution of inquiry requesting the President of the United States to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in his possession relating to the anticipated effects of climate change on the coastal regions of the United States: Adverse report, together with minority views (to accompany H. Res. 515). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2005.

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Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to strategies and plans either designed to cause regime change in or for the use of military force against Iran: Adverse report together with dissenting views (to accompany H. Res. 846). [Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Requesting the President and directing the Secretary of State to provide to the House of Representatives certain documents in their possession relating to strategies and plans either designed to cause regime change in or for the use of military force against Iran: Markup before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 846, June 21, 2006. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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Beavers, John, and Andrew Koontz-Garboden. The Roots of Verbal Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855781.001.0001.

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This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of an event structure, made up of an event template describing the verb’s broad temporal and causal contours that occurs across lots of verbs and groups them into semantic and grammatical classes, plus an idiosyncratic root describing specific, real world states and actions that distinguish verbs with the same template. While much work has focused on templates, less work has addressed the truth conditional contributions of roots, despite the importance of a theory of root meaning in fully defining the predictions event structural approaches make. This book addresses this lacuna, exploring two previously proposed constraints on root meaning: The Bifurcation Thesis of Roots, whereby roots never introduce the meanings introduced by templates, and Manner/Result Complementarity, which has as a component that roots can describe either a manner or a result state but never both at the same time. Two extended case studies, on change-of-state verbs and ditransitive verbs of caused possession, show that neither hypothesis holds, and that ultimately there may be no constraints on what a root can mean. Nonetheless, the book argues that event structures still have predictive value, and it presents a new theory of possible root meanings and how they interact with event templates that produces a new typology of possible verbs, albeit one where not just templates but also roots determine systematic semantic and grammatical properties.

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Dux, Ryan. Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft Verbs in English and German. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.

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Dux, Ryan. Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft Verbs in English and German. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2020.

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Hoepelman, Jaap. Action, Comparison and Change: A Study in the Semantics of Verbs and Adjectives. De Gruyter, Inc., 1986.

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Mathieu, Éric, and Robert Truswell. Micro-change and macro-change in diachronic syntax. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747840.003.0001.

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This introduction discusses current trends in diachronic linguistics with a focus on syntactic change and reviews the fifteen other chapters included in the volume. In the spirit of modern diachronic syntax, the selected articles show that very general patterns of change, emergent, multigenerational diachronic phenomena, interact with small, discrete, local, intergenerational changes in the lexical specification of grammatical features. General topics include acquisition biases, cross-categorial word order generalizations, typological particularities and universals, language contact, and transitional changes, while specific linguistic topics include tense and viewpoint aspect, directional/aspectual affixes, V2, V3, Stylistic Fronting, directional/aspectual prefixes, negation, accusative and dative marking, analytic passives, complementizer agreement, and control and raising verbs.

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Chapman, Elwood N. Attitude: Your Most Priceless Possession (The Fifty-minute Series). Crisp Publications, 1988.

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Chapman, Elwood N. Attitude: Your Most Priceless Possession (A Fifty-Minute Series Book). 3rd ed. Crisp Publications, 1995.

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Martin, Fabienne, and Florian Schäfer. Sublexical modality in defeasible causative verbs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0006.

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This chapter is dedicated to an ambiguity characteristic of what we call defeasible causative verbs (of which ‘teach’ is an example). With agentive subjects, the change of state (CoS) encoded by these verbs (e.g. a learning process) can be entirely denied, giving rise to what we call the “zero-CoS” non-culminating reading of these verbs. With causer subjects, however, the same verbs seem to entail the occurrence of (a part of) the CoS (including in imperfective sentences). We argue that this ambiguity cannot be handled by positing different event structures under the agentive and non-agentive uses. Under the analysis proposed, the semantics of these verbs involve a sublexical modal component à la Koenig and Davis (2001), both with agent and causer subjects. In favor of positing a sublexical modality with all types of subject, we investigate the conditions under which the zero-CoS reading is available even with a subset of inanimate subjects and “non-intentional” agents.

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Babor, Thomas F., Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer, David Foxcroft, Keith Humphreys, María Elena Medina-Mora, Isidore Obot, et al. Criminalization and decriminalization of drug possession. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818014.003.0011.

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Research suggests that punishing drug users has some limitations as a major component of drug policy. An increasing number of countries and sub-national jurisdictions have therefore been reducing or eliminating criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use, on grounds both of proportionality and effectiveness-oriented policy. Most decriminalization or depenalization programmes involve the substitution of civil penalties for criminal penalties for possession offences, while retaining full formal prohibition. The balance of the available evidence is that removing or reducing criminal penalties on possession does not lead to substantial increases in use. In particular, for cannabis, there are a number of cases where there was no measurable change in consumption from such a policy change.

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Fonteyn, Lauren. Categoriality in Language Change. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917579.001.0001.

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This study presents the first elaborate attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes “noun”/“nominal” and “verb”/“clause.” In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event by using “deverbal nominalization” strategies (e.g., Him guessing her size/His guessing of her size (was incredibly lucky)). Interestingly, not only do these strategies each resemble “prototypical” nominals to varying extents, it also has been observed that some of these strategies increasingly resemble clauses and decreasingly resemble prototypical nominals over time, as if they are gradually shifting categories. Thus far, the literature on such cases of diachronic categorial shift has mainly described the processes by focusing on form, leaving the reader with a clear picture of what and how changes have occurred. Yet, the question of why these formal changes have occurred is still shrouded in mystery. This study tackles this mystery by showing that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization can also involve functional-semantic changes. The aim of this study is both theoretical and descriptive. The theoretical aim is to present a model that allows one to study diachronic nominalization and verbalization as not just formal or morpho-syntactic but also functional-semantic processes. The descriptive aim is to offer “workable” definitions of the abstract functional-semantic properties of nominals and verbs/clauses, and subsequently apply them to one of the most intriguing deverbal nominalization systems in the history of English: the English gerund.

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Wittek, Angelika. Learning the Meaning of Change-Of-State Verbs: A Case Study of German Child Language (Studies on Language Acquisition , 17). Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

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Thomas, R. Kayeen. The seven days. 2013.

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Mind of winter: A novel. 2014.

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Kasischke, Laura. Mind of winter. 2015.

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Glanville, Peter John. Symmetry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792734.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 determines the semantic typology of patterns III and VI, sometimes termed the vowel-lengthening patterns. It asserts that verbs formed in these patterns are symmetrical predicates, denoting relations consisting of two complementary forces. It shows that the difference between the two patterns results from the interplay between an underlying symmetric relation and a figure–ground orientation in which one of the participant roles involved is made more prominent than the other. The chapter divides verbs formed in pattern III into verbs of resistance, risk, competition, interaction, and co-action, and those formed in pattern VI into reciprocal verbs, feigning verbs, chaining verbs, and verbs of progressive change. It argues that an account based on a common symmetric structure is able to unite this diverse range of verbs within one analysis, and it offers data from other languages to support this claim.

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Bloomer, Kristin C. Possessed by the Virgin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615093.001.0001.

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This book is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in contemporary Tamil Nadu, south India, who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. It follows their lives over more than a decade, describing their own, the researcher’s own, and devotees’ understandings of the women’s healing and possession practices along with questions about agency, gender roles, authenticity, and social power. It asks, how is it that some experiences of “possession” (a word introduced to India by Christian missionaries, which the book complicates through Tamil renditions) are recognized as authentic, yet others are not? What are the local conditions that enable their very possibility? Discussions of local and widespread “Hindu” practices and discourses shed light on how these women and their followers navigate their bodily experience, socioeconomic status, caste, and gender roles in a modern world of technological change and global economy—and how Church officials navigate these women. Part travelogue, part academic analysis, the book addresses a wide audience, including academics interested in the study of religion, spirit possession, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, postcolonialism, Global Christianity, Tamil culture, Mariology, fluid boundaries across “traditions,” and the relationship between the ethnographer-“Self” and “Other.”

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Forbes, Graeme. Content and Theme in Attitude Ascriptions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198732570.003.0005.

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This chapter addresses a less-commonly discussed substitution failure in attitude ascriptions: a “that”-clause and its corresponding proposition description cannot in general be interchanged in the scope of psych-verbs, despite the standard view that the two forms refer to the same proposition. For example, “Holmes suspects that Moriarty has returned” and “Holmes suspects the proposition that Moriarty has returned” mean something quite different. The chapter accounts for these data in the framework of neo-Davidsonian semantics, arguing that substitution does not simply change the syntactic category of the attitude verb from clausal to transitive or vice versa, but also triggers the side-effect of changing thematic relations: when the transitive verb is used, it is the theme of the attitude-state or event that is identified, but when the clausal verb is used, it is the content of the state that is identified.

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Bavin, Edith. The Acquisition of Ergativity: An Overview. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.25.

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The chapter illustrates variation associated with ergative alignment and properties of ergative languages that might impact on acquisition of the system. Language input, the social context and developmental patterns are also discussed, as are criteria for determining when a system has been acquired. Examples provided represent different language families and geographic areas. Also included are more detailed examples: for Kaluli, which has a split ergative system, dependent on word order and pragmatic factors; for Arctic Quebec Inuktitut which employs detransitivisation processes to change the role of the arguments of bivalent verbs; and for Warlpiri which has frequent ellipsis of core arguments, so reducing the frequency of ergative marking in the input. The data illustrate that split morphological systems and variable use of ergative marking do not seem to be problematic overall. By the age of 2.5 or 3 years, children show knowledge of the system.

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Salanova, Andres Pablo. The paradoxes of Mẽbengokre’s analytic causative. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778264.003.0008.

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Mẽbengokre exhibits a causative construction that is constructed as an applicative, introducing a low argument without displacing the external argument from its subject function. In the typical case, this causative could be seen as an instance of the so-called sociative causative, whereby the causee is accompanied in the action by the causer, rather than being simply induced to action by the causer. These causatives can be straightforwardly analysed as comitative applicatives. However, Mẽbengokre displays the peculiarity that causatives of most verbs that involve a change of state decidedly do not get a sociative interpretation. This chapter addresses the puzzle of how a true causative semantics can arise in such cases, claiming that the applicative morpheme in these causatives has a grammatical use not unlike that of subject-reintroducing ‘by’ in English passives, and that this grammatical function is tied with a null causative morpheme that attaches only to certain verbal stems.

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Danckaert, Lieven. Changing EPP parameters. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759522.003.0005.

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This chapter starts with a description of the core facts concerning the VPAux/AuxVP alternation in the history of Latin. In the case of modal verbs and infinitives, there is a clear decline of the head-final order VPAux, whereas Late Latin BE-periphrases surprisingly prefer this order. Against the backdrop of these observations, the discussion then turns to the analysis of Classical and Late Latin clause structure. It is proposed that during the transition from Classical to Late Latin, a major parametric change took place related to the way the clausal EPP-requirement is satisfied. In the earlier grammar (‘Grammar A’), the entire VP undergoes A-movement to the high T-domain, resulting in the characteristic VPAux word order. In the later grammar (‘Grammar B’) the EPP-requirement is met by means of verb movement, with the VP staying in situ. In this grammar VPAux-orders are derived through roll-up movement, which is incompatible with the VOAux-pattern.

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Postma, Gertjan. Loss of laten-support in embedded infinitivals in fifteenth-century Low Saxon. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747307.003.0011.

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This chapter is a theory-informed quantitative corpus study of infinitival fronting in a type of Infinitival V2 construction found in Old-Frisian and Middle-Dutch. The quantitative investigation evidences that infinitival fronting is the non-finite counterpart of the embedded subjunctive constructions. Formal I-language arguments are provided to demonstrate that the emergence of laten-support (the parallel of English do-support) and the decline of subjunctives are related to one parameter change in CP/TP. Before the fifteenth century, in Dutch, subjunctives and infinitives found in the relevant constructions move out of TP reaching C or Mod. In the second half of the fifteenth century, infinitives are being reanalysed as sitting in T. Hence, in infinitival fronting constructions, a separate verbal auxiliary form (laten) is created as a spellout of C. Although Laten-support is a transient phenomenon (‘failed change’), it has been the trigger of the reanalysis of auxiliaries as ordinary verbs in Dutch.

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Varsano, Paula. Moments. Edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356591.013.27.

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How do the moments that comprise a human life appear through the kaleidoscopic lens of China’s changing modes of literary expression? Many of the writings we have in our possession evince a profound sense of “timeliness”: an awareness of how life events may or may not correspond with the larger, and doubtless much more impersonal, processes of cosmic, historical, or physiological change. Beginning with some of the foundational philosophical texts of the pre-Qin period and proceeding through a range of genres, including biographies, essays, poems, and stories, this chapter will follow the natural arc of a human life—from infancy, through adulthood, old age and death—to consider some of the ways in which writers emerge from, live in, shape, conceptualize, and resist the workings of time upon human life.

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Hugh, Beale, Bridge Michael, Gullifer Louise, and Lomnicka Eva. Part II Description of Interests, 4 Types of interest. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198795568.003.0004.

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This chapter examines how, under English law, there is a major conceptual divide between security interests and absolute interests. In relation to personal property, absolute interests are either ownership or possession. These are both rights in rem: they are enforceable against the whole world, including the liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy of a person against whom the right is asserted. Security interests are also rights in rem, but because they are given as security for an obligation, they are limited by being defeasible upon performance of that obligation. While English law will normally give effect to the intentions of the parties as expressed in the contract, there are some limits to the extent that the parties can change the nature of interests, and it is at this point that the court will recharacterize a transaction or an interest.

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