Clause linking and clause hierarchy : syntax and pragmatics / edited by Isabelle Bril.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bril, Isabelle (Linguist)

EBSCOhost.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 121.

Studies in language companion series ; v. 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 632 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, [2010]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 List of contributors p. vii

2 Editor's introduction p. 1 / Isabelle Bril

3 Part I. Syntactic terminology and typological methods

4 Clause linkage and Nexus in Papuan languages p. 27 / William Foley

5 Capturing particulars and universals in clause linkage p. 51 / Balthasar Bickel

6 Part II. Clause-chaining, converbs, masdars, absolutive constructions, etc.

7 Specialized converbs and adverbial subordination in Axaxdərə Akhvakh p. 105 / Denis Creissels

8 Finite and non-finite p. 143 / Gilles Authier

9 Converbs and adverbial clauses in Badaga, a South-Dravidian language p. 165 / Christiane Pilot-Raichoor

10 Coordination, converbs and clause chaining in Coptic Egyptian typology and structural analysis p. 203 / Chris H. Reintges

11 Part III. Subordination, informational hierarchy and referential hierarchy

12 Informational and referential hierarchy p. 269 / Isabelle Bril

13 Comment clause p. 313 / Zygmunt Frajzyngier

14 Deixis, information structure and clause linkage in Yafi' Arabic (Yemen) p. 333 / Martine Vanhove

15 The role of the Berber deictic and TAM markers in dependent clauses in Zenaga p. 355 / Catherine Taine-Cheikh

16 Deixis and temporal subordinators in Pomak (Slavic, Greece) p. 399 / Evangelia Adamou

17 Correlative markers as phoric "Grammaticalised Category Markers" of subordination in German p. 421 / Colette Cortès

18 Part IV. Informational hierarchy and TAM markers' functions in clause-linkage

19 Focus, mood and clause linkage in Umpithamu (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) p. 451 / Jean-Christophe Verstraete

20 Clause chaining and conjugations in Wolof p. 469 / Stéphane Robert

21 Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency p. 499 / Alexandre François

22 Tense-mood concordance and clause chaining in Mankon (a Grassfields Bantu language) p. 549 / Jacqueline Leroy

23 Clause dependency relations in East Greenlandic Inuit p. 581 / Nicole Tersis

24 Coordination and subordination p. 603 / Eleni Valma

25 Author index p. 619

26 Language index p. 623

27 Topic index p. 625.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789027287588

9027287589

Publisher Number:

99966576037

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