Bridging constructions

by Guérin, Valérie M. P. R.

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Full title :Bridging constructions / edited by Valérie Guérin.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Language Science Press
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 277 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:3961101418, 9783961101429, 3961101426, 9783961101412
DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2563698
oclc:on1100489720
LC Classification:P121
Dewey Decimal:410

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Bridging constructions in typological perspective / Valérie Guérin & Grant Aiton -- The poetics of recapitulative linkage in Matsigenka and mixed Matsigenka-Spanish myth narrations / Nicholas Q. Emlen -- Short, finite and one-sided bridges in Logoori / Hannah Sarvasy -- Bridging constructions in Tsezic languages / Diana Forker & Felix Anker -- Bridging constructions in narrative texts in White Hmong(Hmong-Mien) / Nerida Jarkey -- The form and function of bridging constructions in Eibela discourse / Grant Aiton -- Online and offline bridging constructions in Korowai / Lourens de Vries -- Recapitulative linkage in Mavea / Valérie Guérin -- Clause repetition as a tying technique in Greek conversation / Angeliki Alvanoudi.