Derived coordination : a minimalist perspective on clause chains, converbs and asymmetric coordination /
This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world's languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict dichotomy of subordination and coordination cannot be maintained since some constructions seem to be in between these two categories. This...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2015]
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Colección: | Linguistische Arbeiten (Max Niemeyer Verlag) ;
561. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abbreviations ; Abstract ; Part I: Clause Chains, Medials, and Converbs ; 1 Introducing Clause Chains ; 2 Properties of Medial Constructions ; 2.1 The Morphological Form of Medial Clauses ; 2.2 The Syntactic Properties of Medial Clauses ; 2.3 Summary.
- 3 Previous Analyses 3.1 Subordination Approaches ; 3.2 Coordination Approaches ; 4 A Derived Coordination Approach to Medial Clauses ; 4.1 Theoretical Background ; 4.1.1 The Dichotomy of Coordination and Subordination ; 4.1.2 The Derived Coordination Account.
- 4.2 A Derived Coordination Account of Medial Constructions 4.2.1 The Category of Medial Clauses ; 4.2.2 Applying the Theory ; 4.3 Deriving the Properties of Medial Constructions ; 4.3.1 Morphological Dependence ; 4.3.2 Extraposition and Center Embedding.
- 4.3.3 Backward Pronominalization 4.3.4 Extraction ; 4.4 Summary ; 5 MultipleMedial Clauses ; 6 Medials Remaining in Situ: Converbs ; 6.1 General Properties of Converb Clauses ; 6.2 Applying Clausal Relation Tests ; 6.3 Deriving the Syntactic Properties of Converb Clauses.
- 7 Two Case Studies: Tsakhur and Korean 7.1 Two Types of Converbs in Tsakhur ; 7.2 Converbs and Chaining in Korean ; 8 Crosslinguistic Variation of Clause Chaining Constructions ; 8.1 Parametrizing the Derived Coordination Approach ; 8.2 Variation of Scopal Properties ; 8.3 Extraction.