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 rep

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

This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession. The work is written within a typological frame: the B

The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, synt

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this projec