Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages / / edited by Edward J. Vajda

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819353803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-10451-9; 9786612104510; 90-272-9094-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; v. 300
• Classificazione: 17.52
• Altri autori (Persone): VajdaEdward J
• Disciplina: 494/.6
• Soggetti: Language and languages; Russia, Northern Languages Coordinate constructions Congresses; Russia, Northern Languages Subordinate constructions Congresses; Russia, Northern Languages Syntax Congresses
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Originally presented at the "Third International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia" ('LENCA-3') held at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Tomsk, Russian Federation, during June 27-30, 2006"--Foreword.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clear cases of subordination versus coordination in Western European languages -- 3. Constructions that appear to be coordinate, but behave as if subordinate -- 4. Constructions that appear to be subordinate, but behave as if main clauses -- 5. Degrees of subordination -- 6. Subordination versus coordination according to interpretation? -- 7. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Speech report constructions in Ainu with a focus on person marking -- 3. Functions of speech report constructions in Ainu -- 4. Summary -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The simple Eastern Khanty declarative clause -- 3. Conceptual subordination -- 4. ; Adverbial clauses -- 5. Temporal relations -- 6. Reality condition relations -- 7. Reason relations -- 8. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of non-finite clauses exhibiting null subjects -- 3. Exploring the pragmatic parameters of null arguments -- 4. Data analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Finite structures with a verb in indicative mood -- 3. Finite structures with a verb in subjunctive mood -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relative clauses in Eastern Khanty -- 3. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION -- 1. Introduction.; 2. Relative clauses in Eastern Khanty -- 3. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tungusic languages -- 3. Alternative questions -- 4. Information structure and intonation -- 4. Speech production and speech planning perspective -- 5. Grammaticalization approach -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntagmatic behavior -- 3. Semantic bleaching -- 4. Univerbation -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of languages and grammatical forms -- 3. Counterfactual conditional constructions -- 4. Hypothetical conditional constructions -- 5. Concessive conditional constructions -- 6. Concessive constructions proper -- 7. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- MORPHOLOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR 'COMPLEX SENTENCES' AND POLYSYNTHESIS IN CENTRAL ALASKAN YUPIK (ESKIMO) -- 1. Preliminary -- 2. Polysynthesis illustrated -- 3. Complex verbs -- 4. Relative clauses -- 5. Complement clauses -- 6. Comparative clauses -- 7. Final remarks -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- CONVERBS IN NORTHERN SELKUP -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Converb -- 3. Complex sentences in Selkup -- 4. Converbs in Northern Selkup -- 5. Fossilized converbs -- 6. Summary and discussion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- HEAD-NEGATING ENCLITICS IN KET -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prosody and the phonological status of bound morphemes in Ket -- 3. The prosodic patterning of relational morphemes in Ket -- 4. Relational enclitics as a general class of head-negating devices -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Abbreviations -- REFERENCES -- INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN KET -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview and classification of Ket infinitives -- 3. Conclusion -- Abbreviations.; REFERENCES -- INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.
• Sommario/riassunto: Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and analytic methods of subordination and coordination. Much of the data reflect original fieldwork, and several chapters focus on critically endangered languages. Nearly every family or isolate in North Asia is taken into consideration, as are all major formal and functional types of complex ; sentence formation.