Complex sentences in grammar and discourse : essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson / edited by Joan Bybee, Michael Noonan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bybee, Joan L., author.

Noonan, Michael (Michael P.), author.

Contributor:

Thompson, Sandra A., honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

viii, 363 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Summary:

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Contents:

Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative

Participles in Tsez

Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English

Denial and the construction of conversational turns

On the embodied nature of grammar

The symmetry of counterfactuals

Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations

Hendiadys and auxiliation in English

'Sentence' in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse

Some issues concerning the origin of language

Are subordinate clauses more difficult?*

Combining clauses into clause complexes

Overwrought utterances

Publications by Sandra A. Thompson

Language index

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161674

9781282161672

1282161679

9789027297150

9027297150

OCLC:

70765498