Possessives in English : an exploration in cognitive grammar

1. Preliminaries 2. Theoretical Orientation 3. Some Basic Notions of Cognitive Grammar 4. Syntax in Cognitive Grammar 5. The Constituent Structure of Prenominal Possessives 6. Prenominal Possessives: Some Generative Approaches 7. Specificity and Definiteness of Prenominal Possessives 8. Possessors as Topics 9. The Cue Validity of the Possessor 10. Ing-nominalizations 11. Possessive Compounds 12. Other Possessive Constructions 13. Possession