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Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Ritva Laury
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: John Haiman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combi
The Semantics of Clause Linking
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: R. M. W. Dixon
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-06 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses
Subordination in Conversation
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Ritva Laury
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The articles in this volume examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. So
Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Volker Gast
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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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