Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages / edited by Edward J. Vajda.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Vajda, Edward J.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (3rd : 2006 : Tomsk, Russia)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 300.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Russia, Northern--Languages--Coordinate constructions--Congresses.

Russia, Northern.

Russia, Northern--Languages--Subordinate constructions--Congresses.

Russia, Northern--Languages--Syntax--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and analytic methods of subordination and coordination. Much of the data reflect original fieldwork, and several chapters focus on critically endangered languages. Nearly every family or isolate in North Asia is taken into consideration, as are all major formal and functional types of complex sentence formation.

Contents:

Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION

1. Introduction

2. Clear cases of subordination versus coordination in Western European languages

3. Constructions that appear to be coordinate, but behave as if subordinate

4. Constructions that appear to be subordinate, but behave as if main clauses

5. Degrees of subordination

6. Subordination versus coordination according to interpretation?

7. Conclusions

Abbreviations

REFERENCES

SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU

2. Speech report constructions in Ainu with a focus on person marking

3. Functions of speech report constructions in Ainu

4. Summary

THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY

2. The simple Eastern Khanty declarative clause

3. Conceptual subordination

4. Adverbial clauses

5. Temporal relations

6. Reality condition relations

7. Reason relations

8. Conclusions

NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES

2. Types of non-finite clauses exhibiting null subjects

3. Exploring the pragmatic parameters of null arguments

4. Data analysis

5. Conclusion

FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION

2. Finite structures with a verb in indicative mood

3. Finite structures with a verb in subjunctive mood

4. Conclusion

GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY

2. Relative clauses in Eastern Khanty

3. Conclusion

TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION

1. Introduction.

2. Relative clauses in Eastern Khanty

QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT?

2. Tungusic languages

3. Alternative questions

4. Information structure and intonation

4. Speech production and speech planning perspective

5. Grammaticalization approach

6. Conclusion

THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS

2. Syntagmatic behavior

3. Semantic bleaching

4. Univerbation

IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

2. Overview of languages and grammatical forms

3. Counterfactual conditional constructions

4. Hypothetical conditional constructions

5. Concessive conditional constructions

6. Concessive constructions proper

7. Conclusion

MORPHOLOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR 'COMPLEX SENTENCES' AND POLYSYNTHESIS IN CENTRAL ALASKAN YUPIK (ESKIMO)

1. Preliminary

2. Polysynthesis illustrated

3. Complex verbs

4. Relative clauses

5. Complement clauses

6. Comparative clauses

7. Final remarks

CONVERBS IN NORTHERN SELKUP

2. Converb

3. Complex sentences in Selkup

4. Converbs in Northern Selkup

5. Fossilized converbs

6. Summary and discussion

HEAD-NEGATING ENCLITICS IN KET

2. Prosody and the phonological status of bound morphemes in Ket

3. The prosodic patterning of relational morphemes in Ket

4. Relational enclitics as a general class of head-negating devices

5. Summary and conclusion

INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN KET

2. Overview and classification of Ket infinitives

Abbreviations.

REFERENCES

INDEX

The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

"Originally presented at the "Third International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia" ('LENCA-3') held at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Tomsk, Russian Federation, during June 27-30, 2006"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104510

9781282104518

1282104519

9789027290946

9027290946

OCLC:

300482760