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Record Nr.

UNINA9910318334203321

Autore

Guérin Valérie

Titolo

Bridging constructions / / edited by Valérie Guérin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2019

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-96110-141-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Studies in diversity linguistics ; ; 24

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Grammar, syntax & morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an unprecedented look at this type of linkage across languages and shows that there exist three distinct variants, all subsumed under the hypernym bridging constructions. The chapters highlight the defining features of these constructions in the grammar and their functional properties in discourse. The volume reveals that: Bridging constructions consist of two clauses: a reference clause and a bridging clause. Across languages, bridging clauses can be subordinated clauses, reduced main clauses, or main clauses with continuation prosody. Bridging constructions have three variants: recapitulative linkage, summary linkage and mixed linkage. They differ in the formal makeup of the bridging clause.