Clause linkage in cross-linguistic perspective : data-driven approaches to cross-clausal syntax / edited by Volker Gast, Holger Diessel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gast, Volker.

Diessel, Holger.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 249.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 249

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 1861-4302 ; 249

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Mouton De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the "Third Syntax of the World's Languages" conference, complemented with four additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field wo

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges, prospects / Gast, Volker / Diessel, Holger

Clausal juxtaposition and subordination: New light from Otomi / Palancar, Enrique L.

The multi-purpose subordinator na in Laz / Lacroix, René

Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of 'subordinate' clauses in Puma (Kiranti) / Schackow, Diana / Bickel, Balthasar / Rai, Shree Kumar / Sharma (Gautam), Narayan / Rai, Arjun / Gaenszle, Martin

External agreement in the converbal construction of Northern Akhvakh / Creissels, Denis

Adverbial clauses in the Tsezic languages / Comrie, Bernard / Forker, Diana / Khalilova, Zaira

Relativization in Ket / Nefedov, Andrey

New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat / Authier, Gilles

Patterns of relativization in North Asia: Towards a refined typology of prenominal participial relative clauses / Pakendorf, Brigitte

Participial complementation in Lithuanian / Arkadiev, Peter M.

Participial and infinitival complement sentences in Ancient Greek / Cristofaro, Sonia

Relative clauses with adverbial meaning: A quantitative investigation of hybrid adjunct clauses in Latin / Gast, Volker / Schäfer, Martin

Switch-reference and temporal reference in Mian / Fedden, Sebastian

The performance basis of grammatical constraints on complex sentences: A preliminary survey / Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten

Contributors

Subject index

Language index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283856911

1283856913

9783110280692

3110280698

OCLC:

822025026