Abstract: | According to the investigation of Heine ( 1997) ,Freeze ( 1992) and Lyons ( 1967) ,the grammaticalization sources of possession construction in the languages of the world include: action construction,location construction,companion construction,existence construction,topic construction,source construction and equation construction. The semantic motivation of the grammaticalization provides explanations for some phenomena in Chinese, such as the grammaticalization from action construction to possession const... |