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		Introduction to theory and methods of linguistics: universal properties of human language; phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic structures and analysis; nature and form of grammar.
		Extended piece of writing is undertaken on a linguistic topic selected by the student to be completed under supervision of a faculty member.
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	Demonic Possession
		An individual who is possessed will react violently to the presentation of anything with a religious context, out of fear that harm will come to them; the reaction is elicited merely from being exposed to something such as a Bible or a priest.
		The superhuman strength often exhibited by individuals who are possessed might be explained by the presence of a bipolar disorder; bipolar disorders are frequently accompanied by psychosis, particularly during the manic episodes.
		These are behaviors that are commonly observed in individuals who are reported to be possessed by a demon; individuals who are possessed may be unable to feel pain in certain areas of their body and some of the distortions involved in possession include eyes rolling back and seizures (6).
	www.meta-religion.com /Psychiatry/Demonic_possesion/demonic_possession.htm (1730 words)

	Possessive case
		Possessive case is a grammatical case that exists in some languages and is used to indicate a relationship of possession.
		It is not the same as the genitive case, which can express a wider range of relationships, though the two have similar meanings in many languages.
		The term "possessive case" is often used to refer to the "'s" morpheme, which is suffixed onto many nouns in English to denote possession.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/po/possessive_case.html (227 words)

	Possession (linguistics) - Information, Resources, Links and Reference
		Possession, in the context of linguistics, is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) possesses (owns, rules over, has as a part, has as a relative, etc.) the referent of the other.
		Possession may be marked in many ways, such as simple juxtaposition of nouns, a possessive case, a construct state (for example, see Arabic grammar: state), or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives).
		Possessive pronouns in Hawaiian are associated with nouns distinguishing between o-class, a-class and neutral pronouns according to the relationship of possessor and possessed.
	www.cyberpedia.net /info.php?title=Possession_(linguistics) (494 words)

	CRL Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 6 July 1989
		One difference between the possession involving kin relations and that of body-parts is that in the former the PSM is physi- cally separable from the PSR while in the latter it is not.
		In the case of body-part nouns in a possessive re- lation, the relation between PSM and PSR is that of part-whole and is characterized by physical insepara- bility.
		Possession of a body-part can be di- agrammed as follows: Here, the PSR (i.e., the person) is identified with his/her body, which is encoded as an RP by virtue of its salience with respect to its parts.
	crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/3-6/Article1.html (5386 words)

	The University Of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
		Linguistic gender in a number of unrelated languages, including Caribbean Creoles, is also discussed, with a view to assessing how relevant charges of sexism might be.
		To reinforce oral and written skills Although Linguistics can be applied to any area of human life in which language is used, Applied Linguistics has traditionally been chiefly concerned with the examination of language in an educational context, and more narrowly, with foreign languages teaching and learning.
		The course seeks to explore the links between Linguistics, Psychology and the study of society all of which are important in providing solutions to "problems" involving the acquisition and use of language.
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	Linguistics
		Linguistic context is discourse that precedes a sentence to be interpreted and situational context is knowledge about the world.
		Linguistic changes like sound shift is found in the history of all languages, as evidenced by the regular sound correspondences that exist between different stages of the same language, different dialects, and different languages.
		Linguists identify regular sound correspondences using the comparative method among the cognates (words that developed from the same ancestral language) of related languages.
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	Linguistics: An Overview
		This linguistic preparation for war had to be done in a hurry, the needs were pressing, and centers were set up in dozens of American colleges for the study and teaching of languages, both the common ones and those which were then rare or exotic.
		But it is the last half of the 20th century that Linguistics and linguistic science have exfoliated into dozens new areas, some of them completely removed from the old philological language- studies of the previous century.
		Zipf was largely disregarded as a radical linguistic eccentric in the l930's, by l960 his work was incorporated in the index of new mathematical work, along with the cybernetics of Norbert Wiener, in a project fostered by Whatmough and the Linguistics Department at Harvard.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/linguistics.html (5444 words)

	Maria Koptjevskaja Tamms forskningsintressen
		Nominalizations have also served as an entrance to the study of adnominal possession across languages, from various points of view (morphosyntax, semantics and possible correlations between the two) ?I have written a number of papers on these topics and am currently working with a large data base on adnominal possessive constructions across languages.
		As is well known, "possession" in linguistics often applies to relations which hardly have anything to do with "possession", say, in the legal or everyday sense.
		Linguists make, for instance, an important distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, where kinterms and names for body parts (typically inalienables) often build other types of possessive constructions than words for artefacts and other concrete objects.
	www.ling.su.se /staff/tamm/Research.html (625 words)

	Linguistics Certificate - ASU
		This interdisciplinary graduate certificate in linguistics offers students in several fields the opportunity to gain an understanding of the way in which languages are structured, how they are acquired and how they vary over time, space, social distance and situational contexts.
		The 18-credit linguistics certificate can be completed easily within a two-year period as a complement to another degree or as a stand-alone certificate obtained by working professionals.
		The Graduate Certificate in Linguistics is available to all ASU graduate students irrespective of their major and to non-degree graduate students and working professionals provided they meet eligibility criteria.
	www.asu.edu /clas/english/col/index.html (1238 words)

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		In particular, possessive constructions (in English: John's child, a child of John, a child of John's, perhaps John has a child) are dual to transitive sentences, comparable in semantic richness and nuance to their verbal counterparts.
		Pylkkänen, Liina (1998) The 'Be' of Possession in Finnish.
		Nichols, Johanna (1988) On alienable and inalienable possession.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~cb125/3340_06f.html (1878 words)

	The Assayer's Scale: Was Intelligence the Ultimate Currency of the Information Age?
		While the loss of land during feudal times, or money during the industrial age, meant the loss of importance, status, and identity, it did not mean you had stopped being "you." But with the loss of knowledge-information, and/or the capacity to acquire it, you cease to be the same person.
		The two innovations-developmental linguistics and story-engram layout- were introduced to make story comprehension easier, so that contextual cues could be used in code approximation.
		Using developmental linguistics, they assembled their thoughts by first searching for the noun, then the verb, gradually adding the adjectives and adverbs.
	www.newhorizons.org /spneeds/inclusion/teaching/fuller_iq.htm (2746 words)

	A History of the Arabic Language
		This explanation, he felt, was more in line with conventional linguistic theory such as the wave theory of language change diffusion where language changes spread wave-like from speech population to speech population (Blau 27).
		One place where this is easily seen is in showing possession; Standard Arabic uses a synthetic method to show possession, but almost all dialects have now developed an analytical method of showing possession using a word which shows the possession relationship (Versteegh 18).
		Linguistically, the Arab world is a complex struggle between the progressiveness of colloquial Arabic and the conservative action of Standard Arabic which is fostered by religion.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling450ch/reports/arabic.html (3500 words)

	Ball-Stick-Bird - Article - Music, Mathematics, Dyslexia: The other Ways of Organizing Information.
		He reveled in the admiration and envy his high IQ score was bringing, knowing that it meant he was in possession of the ultimate property.
		While the loss of land during feudal times, or money during the industrial age, meant the loss of importance, status and identify, it did not mean that you had ceased being "you." However, with the loss of knowledge-information and/or the capacity to acquire it, you are no longer the same person.
		Using developmental linguistics they assembled their thoughts by first searching for the main noun, then its verb, gradually adding adjectives and adverbs.
	www.ballstickbird.com /articles/a11_intel.html (2609 words)

	Biblical demon possession and Haitian loa possession
		He contends that voodoo and its attendant phenomenon of loa possession is something that enables Haitians "to live lives of comparative happiness because they have found a religion which does bring their gods to them.
		Secondly, the identifying characteristics of Haitian voodoo loa possession will be listed along with parallels which may or may not occur in the biblical incidents of demon possession.
		It will also be assumed that the demon possession in the New Testament is of supernatural origin and cannot be explained merely on the basis of present-day psychological research.
	home.snu.edu /~hculbert/voodoo.htm (706 words)

	Stealing the Fire
		Jost was a Germanic trained linguist at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, while Einstein was a graduate student there; they even shared a rooming house together; and to top it off, Einstein in his later years referred many times to this Germanic linguist, crediting him as the source of many of Al's most important ideas.
		Though most linguists were still sleeping, at least two were this time awake and participating as a century of fire-stealing came full circle.
		Linguistics, unlike 'hard science', as that name implies, has always had to balance form and meaning in its equations -- and it is exactly the meaning part that other sciences are so envious of, and why they try to steal our fire.
	www.enformy.com /dma-stf.htm (2543 words)

	Part 2: Biblical demon possession and Haitian loa possession
		Jesus himself is, however, accused by his enemies of being demon possessed in John 7:20-21.
		Two cases of demon possession described in some detail are included in the book of Acts.
		William W. Orr suggests that there is a clear reason for the abundance of cases of demon possession in the first part of the New Testament after almost no mention in the Old Testament and then their sudden disappearance from the Scriptures.
	home.snu.edu /~HCULBERT/voodoo1.htm (834 words)

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		(Ph.D. Dissertation in Linguistics, University of Kansas.) Loughridge, R. M., and David M. Hodge 1890 English and Muskokee Dictionary Collected from Various Sources and Revised and Dictionary of the Muskokee or Creek Language in Creek and English.
		(Ph.D. Dissertation in Linguistics, Tulane University.) Nicklas, Thurston Dale 1974 The Elements of Choctaw.
		(Ph.D. Dissertation in Linguistics, University of Michigan.) ______ 1975 Choctaw Morphophonemics.
	www.wm.edu /linguistics/wahala/bibliography.doc (3162 words)

	possession - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Possession : Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology [home, info]
		Phrases that include possession: criminal possession, debtor in possession - dip, hostile possession, demonic possession, peaceable possession, more...
		Words similar to possession: ownership, monomania, possessional, possessionless, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=possession&ls=a (336 words)

	Undergraduate Courses in Linguistics
		Introduction to theory and methods of linguistics: universal properties of human language; phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic structures and analysis; nature and form of grammar.
		Extended piece of writing is undertaken on a linguistic topic selected by the student to be completed under supervision of a faculty member.
		Draft of extended piece of writing on a linguistic topic selected by the student is prepared under supervision of a faculty member.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/linguistics/programs/courses/ucourses.htm (1444 words)

	Demonic Possession
		An individual who is possessed will react violently to the presentation of anything with a religious context, out of fear that harm will come to them; the reaction is elicited merely from being exposed to something such as a Bible or a priest.
		The superhuman strength often exhibited by individuals who are possessed might be explained by the presence of a bipolar disorder; bipolar disorders are frequently accompanied by psychosis, particularly during the manic episodes.
		These are behaviors that are commonly observed in individuals who are reported to be possessed by a demon; individuals who are possessed may be unable to feel pain in certain areas of their body and some of the distortions involved in possession include eyes rolling back and seizures (6).
	meta-religion.com /Psychiatry/Demonic_possesion/demonic_possession.htm (1733 words)

	Possession (linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Possession, in the context of linguistics, is an asymmetric relationship between two constituents, the referent of one of which (the possessor) possesses (owns, rules over, has as a part, has as a relative, etc.) the referent of the other.
		Possession may be marked in many ways, such as simple juxtaposition of nouns, a possessive case, a construct state (for example, see Arabic grammar#State), or adpositions (possessive suffixes, possessive adjectives).
		When something is inalienably possessed, it is usually an attribute: for example, John's big nose is inalienably possessed, because it cannot (without surgery) be removed from John â” it's simply a quality he has.
	www.pillscatalog.net /Possession_%28linguistics%29.html (642 words)

	Linguist List - Book Information
		In this new work, Bernd Heine claims that the structure of grammatical categories is predictable to a large extent once we know the range of possible cognitive structures from which they are derived.
		The author uses as his example the structure of predicative possession, and shows how most of the possessive constructions to be found in the world's languages can be traced back to a small set of basic conceptual patterns.
		Illustrated by a wealth of examples, this is an original and important statement from a leading linguist.
	linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=18860 (213 words)

	A Review of The Possession Legacy by Trevor Dalton
		The Possession Legacy, a horror fantasy by Trevor Dalton, published by Libros International, is a tale of modern day vampires, set in Wales and the West Midlands.
		In the Possession Legacy we follow several characters and eventually Sarah, herself, to bizarre and bloody endings.
		Trevor Dalton’s horror novel, The Possession Legacy, is a tale of modern day vampires whose power was inherited from an ancient prince of Wales.
	www.buzzle.com /articles/a-review-of-the-possession-legacy-by-trevor-dalton.html (562 words)

	Togan Possessives
		Analyses of Oceanic (and Polynesian) A- and O-possession typically distinquish between the two types by making reference to the nature of the relationship between possessor and possessed: dominant and subordinate possession (Pawley, 1973; Biggs, 1982; Lynch, 1982), or control and not-control possession (Wilson, 1976, 1982), or alienable and inalienable possession (Lichtenberk, 1985).
		In 1996, Taumoefolau proposed a fascinating analysis of Tongan possessives in which she rejected the validity of these analyses and approached the Tongan A/O-possessive dichotomy by using metaphor and prototype theory.
		I use concepts—like Vector, Center, Direction, Path, Body/Route, and End-of-Path(Bennardo, 1996)—from the Spatial Representation module to outline the conceptual structure linguistically instantiated by the dichotomous nature of Tongan possession.
	www3.niu.edu /~t20gxb1/Possessives.htm (384 words)

	Erin O’Rourke
		She also is interested in investigating Spanish in the United States in contact with both English and other varieties of Spanish.
		Inalienable possession in Spanish: L2-acquisition at the lexicon-syntax interface.
		The acquisition of inalienable possession syntax in L2 Spanish.
	www.linguistics.pitt.edu /people/faculty/o-rourke.htm (202 words)

	LINGUIST List 9.941: Cognitive Linguistics
		POSSESSION: COGNITIVE SOURCES, FORCES AND GRAMMATICALIZATION Bernd Heine (University of Cologne); Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces and Grammaticalization; ISBN: 0-521-55037-8; Hardback, 6 X 9, 290 pp.; Pub.
		In this volume, a distinguished team of contributors from visual science, psychology, linguistics and anthropology examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge, surveying key ideas, results and techniques from the study of human color vision as well as field methods and theoretical interpretations drawn from linguistic anthropology.
		The cognitive foundations of pragmatic principles: implications for theories of linguistic and cognitive representation, Edward A Robinson.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/9/9-941.html (745 words)

	Reiko Vermeulen
		The thesis argues that the phenomenon is licensed by a thematic operation, rather than by a specific functional projection or movement of the possessor.
		On the Syntax of External Possession in Korean.
		Possessive and adjunct multiple nominative constructions in Japanese.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/reiko (627 words)

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