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Bernd Heine argues that the constitution of grammatical different types is predictable to a wide quantity after we understand the variety of attainable cognitive constructions from which they're derived. the writer makes use of as his instance the constitution of predicative ownership, and exhibits how lots of the possessive structures to be present in the world's languages could be traced again to a small set of simple conceptual styles. utilizing grammaticalization thought Heine describes how every one impacts the observe order and morphosyntax of the ensuing possessive construction.

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