THE GRAMMAR OF INALIENABILITY: A TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BODY PART TERMS AND THE PART-WHOLE RELATION Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 14.) Edited by Hilary Chappell and William McGregor xiii+931pp. Cloth DM 398 ISBN 3-11-012804-7 This volume presents invited research papers on the topic of inalienability and the personal domain and its grammatical expression in a variety of unrelated languages from Australia, Oceania, Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. A descriptive and typological framework is used to address a range of current theoretical issues in semantics and syntax, including noun classes, genitives, nominal apposition and "possessor raising" constructions such as datives, noun incorporation and "favourite" constructions such as double subject and double nominative constructions. CONTENTS Preface Map PART 1: INTRODUCTION Hilary Chappell & William McGregor: Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability Charles Bally: The expression of concepts of the personal domain and indivisibility in Indo-European languages. (Translated from French by Christine Beal and Hilary Chappell.) PART 2: LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA Nicholas Evans: The syntax and semantics of body part incorporation in Mayali Mark Harvey: Body parts in Warray Komei Hosokawa: "My face am burning": quasi-passive, body-parts, and related issues in Yawuru grammar and cultural concepts Velma Leeding: Body parts and possession in Anindilyakwa William McGregor: The grammar of nominal prefixing in Nyulnyul Graham McKay: Body parts, possession marking and nominal classes in Ndjebbana Michael Walsh: Body parts in Murrinh-Patha: incorporation, grammar and metaphor PART 3: LANGUAGES OF THE PACIFIC Terry Crowley: Inalienable possession in Paamese grammar Midori Osumi: Body parts in Tinrin PART 4: LANGUAGES OF ASIA Hilary Chappell: Inalienability and the personal domain in Mandarin Chinese discourse Marybeth Clark: Where do you feel? - Stative verbs and body-part terms in Mainland Southeast Asia Tasaku Tsunoda: The possession cline in Japanese and other languages PART 5: LANGUAGES OF NORTH AMERICA Marianne Mithun: Multiple reflections of inalienability in Mohawk Chad Thompson: On the grammar of body parts in Koyukon Athabaskan PART 6: LANGUAGES OF EUROPE Kate Burridge: Degenerate cases of body parts in Middle Dutch Maria Manoliu-Manea: Inalienability and topicality in Romanian: pragma-semantics of syntax Dorothea Neumann: The dative and the grammar of body parts in German PART 7: LANGUAGES OF AFRICA Felix Ameka: Body parts in Ewe grammar Edith Bavin: Body parts in Acholi: alienable and inalienable distinctions and extended uses Larry Hyman: The syntax of body parts in Haya PART 8: BIBLIOGRAPHY Hilary Chappell & William McGregor: Bibliography on inalienability Subject index Language index Author index