Subordination in native South-American languages
by Gijn, Rik van Haude, Katharina Muysken, Pieter
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies th…
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- Full title :Subordination in native South-American languages / edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken.
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In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.
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- Publication Date:2011.
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 315 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027206787, 9027206783, 9789027287090, 9027287090
- oclc:ocn695860291
- LC Classification:PM5008
- Dewey Decimal:498
Table of Contents
Subordination in South America: An overview / Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken -- Subordinate adverbial constructions in Mekens / Ana Vilacy Galucio -- Relative clauses in Mẽbengokre / Andrés Pablo Salanova -- Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan) / Swintha Danielsen -- Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narratives / Antoine Guillaume -- Referring to states and events: Subordination in Movima / Katharina Haude -- Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordination / Rik van Gijn -- Subordination in Cholón / Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus -- Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination Rafael Fischer and Eva van Lier 221-250 Relative clauses in Ecuadorian Quechua / Pieter Muysken -- Participial clauses in Tarma Quechua / Willem F.H. Adelaar -- Complex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with Chipaya / Katja Hannss.
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