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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779319403321

Titolo

Clause linkage in cross-linguistic perspective [[electronic resource] ] : data-driven approaches to cross-clausal syntax / / edited by Volker Gast, Holger Diessel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : Mouton De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85691-3

3-11-028069-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 249

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 249

Classificazione

ET 650

Altri autori (Persone)

GastVolker

DiesselHolger

Disciplina

415

415/.018

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The typology of clause linkage: status quo, challenges, prospects / Gast, Volker / Diessel, Holger -- Clausal juxtaposition and subordination: New light from Otomi / Palancar, Enrique L. -- The multi-purpose subordinator na in Laz / Lacroix, René -- Morphosyntactic properties and scope behavior of 'subordinate' clauses in Puma (Kiranti) / Schackow, Diana / Bickel, Balthasar / Rai, Shree Kumar / Sharma (Gautam), Narayan / Rai, Arjun / Gaenszle, Martin -- External agreement in the converbal construction of Northern Akhvakh / Creissels, Denis -- Adverbial clauses in the Tsezic languages / Comrie, Bernard / Forker, Diana / Khalilova, Zaira -- Relativization in Ket / Nefedov, Andrey -- New strategies for relative clauses in Azeri and Apsheron Tat / Authier, Gilles -- Patterns of relativization in North Asia: Towards a refined typology of prenominal participial relative clauses / Pakendorf, Brigitte -- Participial complementation in Lithuanian / Arkadiev, Peter M. -- Participial and infinitival complement sentences in Ancient Greek / Cristofaro, Sonia -- Relative clauses with



adverbial meaning: A quantitative investigation of hybrid adjunct clauses in Latin / Gast, Volker / Schäfer, Martin -- Switch-reference and temporal reference in Mian / Fedden, Sebastian -- The performance basis of grammatical constraints on complex sentences: A preliminary survey / Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten -- Contributors -- Subject index -- Language index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the "Third Syntax of the World's Languages" conference, complemented with four additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field wo