Diverse scenarios of syntactic complexity / edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández, Claudine Chamoreau.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Alvarez González, Albert.

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 ; Volume 126.

Typological studies in language ; Volume 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Complexity (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages).

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:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact

Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai

Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact

Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition

Constructional grounding in emerging complexity

Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clauses

The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts

Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui

Part IV. The diachrony of syntactic complexity

Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in Purepecha

Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo

Syntactic complexity and grammaticalization in Toba language (Guaycuruan)

From discourse to syntax

Authors Index

Language Index

Subject Index

Notes:

"This book was born from the papers presented at the annual Seminar on Syntactic Complexity held each November at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo (Sonora, Mexico) from 2015 to 2017."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262301

9027262306