Contexts of subordination : cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives / edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski, Helena Sorva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Visapää, Laura, editor.

Kalliokoski, Jyrki, editor.

Sorva, Helena, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 249.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 0922-842X ; Volume 249

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Subordinate constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Typological (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The change from temporal to cause is one of the well-known grammaticalization paths. This article analyses the change in the Estonian conjunction kuna, 'while; as, because' from temporal to causal one as well as the attitude of the Estonian language planners towards this change. This change has mainly taken place during the twentieth century. The end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the prevailing use of the temporal use of kuna. However, during the latter part of the 20th century the use of kuna began to shift, and the use of causal kuna began to dominate. As an intermediary stage between the temporal and causal usages, kuna was used as an adversative temporal conjunction. The impact of this shift in usage of kuna as a causal conjunction has also slightly changed the use of other Estonian causal conjunctions. Initially, Estonian language planners adopted a strict attitude towards the change of kuna, but language planning could not halt this change. For example, editors continued to cross out the causal use of kuna, but they could not increase the temporal use, and this usage of the conjunction hardly appears in the written texts of the 1970s. However, the change was finally accepted in the 1990s.

Contents:

Contexts of Subordination

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

1. Introduction

1. Perspectives on subordination

2. Subordination as a universal and language-specific phenomenon

3. Subordination in the present volume

References

2. Subordination in a dynamic account of grammar

1. Subordination factors

2. A dynamic view of grammar

3. Grouping

4. Grammar and symbolic assemblies

5. Discourse function

6. Relative clauses

7. Complement clauses

8. Adverbial clauses

9. Conclusion

3. Is there really a syntactic category of subordination?

2. Embedding and its problems

3. Embedding: Semantics, pragmatics, diachrony

4. Concluding remarks

Abbreviations

4. Rhetorical use of some Finnish conjunctions in constructions and the scope of subordination

1. A group of five constructions

2. Some characteristics of the kun/kunnes + sound word construction variants

3. Subordinating conjunctions kun and kunnes and the "inverse" use of kun as a motivating factor

4. Typical and "narrative" uses of kunnes

5. Conclusions

5. Subordination in purpose clauses. Variation of verb moods in Finnish and French

2. Contrasting the Finnish conditional and the indicative mood: Purpose and consequence

3. Comparison to the French subjunctive

4. Subordination and mood in purpose clauses

5. Conclusion

Abbreviations in interlinear morphemic gloss

Transcription symbols

Data

6. On the contextual conceptualization of joka relative clauses in Finnish

2. joka constructions in written Finnish

3. On the conceptualization of the joka construction

4. On the functions of joka relative constructions in written Finnish.

5. Conceptualization potential of the joka relative construction

7. More subordinate? Verb-final order and subordination in Finnish dialects

2. Subordination, or not?

3. Finnish word order

4. Adverbial clauses with kun

5. Conditional clauses with jos

7. The role of the main clause

8. Conclusions

Glosses and conventions

8. Subordination and the prosodic marking of punctuation in L'étranger by Albert Camus

2. Prosodic prototypes and atypical markings

3. Conclusions

9. Utterances ending in the conjunction että: Complete or to be continued?

2. The Finnish että

3. Some previous research on utterance-final conjunctions

4. The analysis

Glossing symbols

10. French and Finnish converbal constructions and their translation from French into Finnish

2. Converbs in French and Finnish

3. Finnish translations of French converbs

4. Final remarks

Novels and short stories

11. Development of the Estonian conjunction kuna 'while

because' during the 20th century

2. Development of kuna from a temporal to a causal conjunction

3. The influence of the development of kuna on the use of other causal conjunctions

4. Conclusions

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269614

9027269610

OCLC:

889675336