Complementizer semantics in European languages / edited by Kasper Boye and Petar Kehayov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boye, Kasper, editor.

Kehayov, Petar, editor.

Series:

Empirical approaches to language typology ; Volume 57.

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 0933-761X ; Volume 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Study and teaching.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Europe--Languages--Semantics.

Europe.

Europe--Languages--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (910 page)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Contents:

Front matter

Foreword

Table of contents

List of contributors

List of gloss abbreviations

Complementizer semantics – an introduction

Finite clause complementizers in Celtic

Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

Complementizer semantics in the Germanic languages

Complementizers in Slavonic (Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian)

Semantic functions of complementizers in Baltic

The semantics and syntax of complementation markers as an areal phenomenon in the Balkans, with special attention to Albanian

Semantics of complementation in Ossetic

Complementizers in Romani

On the semantic function and selection of Basque finite complementizers

Semantic functions of complementizers in Maltese

Complementation marker semantics in Finnic (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian)

Clausal complementation in Kildin, Skolt and North Saami

Semantic functions of complementizers in Permic languages

Modal functions of the complementizer hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian

Clausal complementation in Turkish and Noghay in a semantic perspective

Complementizers in Kalmyk

Semantics of complementation in Adyghe

Complementizers in Hinuq

Complementizers and the complementizing function – structure and pragmatics in a panchronic perspective

Complementizer semantics in European languages: Overview and generalizations

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resouce; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110416664

3110416662

9783110416619

3110416611

OCLC:

958420073