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Adverbial clauses in cross-linguistic perspective
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Representing the broadest study so far conducted on the typology of subordination (clause or sentence dependency), this book is based on an 80 language sample and provides a large amount of data on the coding of several types of complement, adverbial and relative sentence
Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria. This text shows that these are untenable in a cross-linguistic perspective, and provides a cognitively-based definition. In all, it presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's lan…
