Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession

 Content: 1. Introduction (by Borjars, Kersti), pvii-xii; 2. Dealing with postmodified possessors in early English: Split and group genitives (by Allen, Cynthia L.), p1-34; 3. Variation in the form and function of the possessive morpheme in Late Middle and Early Modern English (by Juvonen, Teo), p35-58; 4. The great regression: Genitive variability in Late Modern English news texts* (by Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt), p59-88; 5. Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints (by O'Connor, Catherine), p89-122; 6. Expression of possession in English: The significance of the right edge (by Borjars, Kersti), p123-148; 7. A cognitive analysis of John's hat (by Hudson, Richard A.), p149-176; 8. The oblique genitive in English (by Payne, John), p177-192; 9. The marker of the English ''Group Genitive'' is a special clitic, not an inflection (by Anderson, Stephen R.), p193-218; 10. Two prenominal possessors in West Flemish (by Haegeman, Liliane), p219-252; 11. A Mozart sonata and the Palme murder: The structure and uses of proper-name compounds in Swedish* (by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria), p253-290; 12. Possessive clitics and ezafe in Urdu (by Bogel, Tina), p291-322; 13. References, p323-338; 14. Index, p339-342