Prepositional possessive constructions in Celtic Languages and Celtic Englishes
Extract: [...] One of the often noted characteristic features of the Celtic languages is the absence of a singular verbal form with the meaning ‘to have’.1 The principal way of expressing possession is through periphrastic constructions with prepositions (such as Irish ag, Scottish Gaelic aig ‘at’;...
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Universität Potsdam
2007
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| Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19253 http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1925/ |