Title Statements
- Full title :Subordination / Sonia Cristofaro.
Summary
"This book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria, such as clausal embedding or non-finiteness. Sonia Cristofaro shows that these definitions are untenable in a cross-linguistic perspective, and provides a cognitive based definition of subordination." "The analysis is based on a representative 80 language sample, and is the broadest study so far conducted on the cross-linguistic coding of several types of complement, adverbial, and relative sentence. These sentence types display considerable structural variation across languages. However, this variation turns out to be constrained, and appears crucially related to the functional properties of individual sentence types. This work is the first systematic attempt to establish comprehensive implicational hierarchies describing the coding of complement, adverbial, and relative sentences at a single stroke. Concepts from typological theory and cognitive linguistics are integrated to account for these hierarchies."--Résumé de l'éditeur
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (372 pages) : : illustrations, fichiers HTML
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1132180886
- LC Classification:P294
- Dewey Decimal:415
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