Diverse scenarios of syntactic complexity / edited by Albert Álvarez González, University of Sonora; Zarina Estrada Fernández, University of Sonora; Claudine Chamoreau, CEMCA.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Alvarez González, Albert, editor.

Estrada Fernández, Zarina, editor.

Chamoreau, Claudine, editor.

Conference Name:

Seminar on Syntactic Complexity (2015-2017 : Universidad de Sonora)

Series:

Typological studies in language ; 0167-7373 Volume 126.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; volume 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Complexity (Linguistics).

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

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

VI, 257 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understanding how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world's languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1

2 Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact p. 13

3 Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai p. 13 / John Davies; Bernard Comrie

4 Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact p. 27 / Tor A. Åfarli; Karumuri V. Subbarao

5 Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition p. 53

6 Constructional grounding in emerging complexity p. 53 / Cecilia Rojas-Nieto

7 Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clauses p. 87

8 The predicates of Luiseno clausal adjuncts p. 87 / Susan Steele

9 Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui p. 109 / Lilián Guerrero

10 Part IV. The diachrony of syntactic complexity p. 139

11 Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in Purepecha p. 139 / Claudine Chamoreau

12 Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo p. 167 / Zarina Estrada-Fernández

13 Syntactic complexity and grammaticalization in Toba language (Guaycuruan) p. 191 / Cristina Messineo

14 From discourse to syntax p. 217 / Albert Álvarez González

15 Authors Index

16 Language Index

17 Subject Index.

Notes:

Papers presented at the annual Seminar on Syntactic Complexity held each November at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, from 2015 to 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Diverse scenarios of syntactic complexity.

ISBN:

9789027203434

9027203431

OCLC:

1091298494