Noun-modifying clause constructions in languages of Eurasia : rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Matsumoto, Yoshiko, 1954- (Editor ), Comrie, Bernard, 1947- (Editor ), Sells, Peter, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 116.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Relative clauses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Languages in contact > Eurasia.
Typology (Linguistics)
Relatives.
Syntaxe.
Langues en contact > Eurasie.
Typologie (Linguistique)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Noun phrase
Grammar, Comparative and general > Relative clauses
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Eurasia > Languages.
Eurasia
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Noun-modifying clause constructions in languages of Eurasia
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The construction under investigation
  • 2.1 Types of NMCC
  • 2.2 Generalized relative clauses and "aboutness relatives"
  • 3. Possible common properties of the languages in the investigation
  • 4. Questions investigated
  • 5. Chapters in the book
  • 6. Key terminology
  • References
  • General noun-modifying clause constructions in Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Properties of the General Noun Modifying Clause Construction (GNMCC) in Japanese
  • 3. Possible relations of the head noun to the modifying clause
  • 3.1 Clause-host type GNMCCs (Argument, adjunct and frame NMCCs)
  • 3.2 Noun-host type GNMCCs (Content noun NMCCs)
  • 3.3 Clause and noun-host type GNMCCs (Relational/perceptional noun NMCCs)
  • 4. Determining factors for acceptable constructions
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • The attributive versus final distinction and the manifestation of "main clause phenomena" in Japanese and Korean noun modifying clause constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Noun-modifying clause constructions and attributive predicate forms
  • 3. 'Main clause phenomena' in Japanese and Korean NMCCs
  • 4. Further infiltration of main clause phenomena into Japanese NMCCs: Emergence of the 'less overt' clause linkage devices marking direct quotation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Noun-modifying constructions in Korean
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Forms and functions of NMCCs
  • 2.1 Overview of morphology
  • 2.2 Relative clauses: Basic patterns
  • 2.3 Noun complement clauses
  • 2.4 Other complement-like clauses
  • 2.4.1 Perception noun complements
  • 2.4.2 Arguments of relational nouns.
  • 2.5 Obliquely related modifying clauses
  • 2.6 Modifying clauses with multiple nominative sources
  • 3. Limits of NMCCs
  • 3.1 Extended relativization examples
  • 3.2 Consequential calculation
  • 3.3 Limits on apparent relative clauses
  • 4. Island effects in relative clauses
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Noun-modifying clause constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sino-Tibetan
  • 3. Modern Mandarin
  • 4. Discussion
  • References
  • Noun-modifying clauses in Cantonese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Typological properties of Cantonese
  • 3. Forms and functions of noun-modifying clauses
  • 3.1 Noun modification in Mandarin and Cantonese
  • 3.2 Typology of NMCCs
  • 3.2.1 Argument NMCCs
  • 3.2.2 Adjunct NMCCs
  • 3.3 Extended NMCCs
  • 3.3.1 Frame NMCCs
  • 3.3.2 Content noun NMCCs
  • 3.4 Pragmatics and ambiguous NMCCs
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • General noun-modifying clause constructions in Hinuq and Bezhta, with a note on other Daghestanian languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. GNMCCs with a coreferential element in the modifying clause and "accessibility"
  • 2.1 The "gap" strategy
  • 2.1.1 The understood coreferential noun phrase in the modifying clause is an argument
  • 2.1.2 "Relativization" of adjuncts
  • 2.2 Resumptive pronouns
  • 3. GNMCCs without a coreferential noun phrase in the modifying clause
  • 3.1 Other components of the Frame
  • Consequence/result
  • Reverse condition
  • Purpose
  • Requisite
  • 3.2 Sentential complements of nouns
  • Nouns of communication
  • Nouns of thought and feeling
  • Other content-taking nouns as heads
  • Other types
  • 4. Coreference across clause boundaries
  • 5. Other Nakh-Daghestanian languages
  • 6. Conclusions and interpretations
  • 7. A note on Tsez
  • Acknowledgements
  • References.
  • The general noun-modifying clause construction in Tundra Nenets and its possible origin
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The basic properties of the language
  • 3. Relative clauses
  • 4. Noun complementation
  • 5. General noun-modifying clause constructions
  • 5.1 Relativization-like function
  • 5.2 Extended functions
  • 6. GNMCCs and noun-noun compounds
  • 7. Remarks about diachrony
  • References
  • Noun-modifying constructions and relativization in the central and western Caucasus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Survey of relativization strategies and GNMCC's
  • 2.1 Nakh-Daghestanian
  • 2.2 Ossetic (Digor dialect)
  • 2.3 West Caucasian
  • 2.4 Kartvelian
  • 3. Survey of other relevant typological variables
  • 3.1 Constraints on relativization: Role and/or case of RN
  • 3.2 Preferred case or role, based on text frequency counts
  • 3.3 Core chaining
  • 3.4 Relationship of relativization to core chaining
  • 3.5 Agreement and how it works
  • 3.6 Survey: Summary
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Noun-modifying clause constructions in Ainu
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic properties of Ainu
  • 2.1 Basic clause types in Ainu
  • 2.2 Noun phrase structure
  • 3. Noun-modifying clause constructions in Ainu: Relative clauses vs. noun-complement clauses
  • 4. Relative clauses
  • 4.1 Relativization of arguments
  • 4.1.1 Subject of intransitive verb (S)
  • 4.1.2 Subject of two-place transitive verb (A)
  • 4.1.3 Subject of three-place transitive verb (A)
  • 4.1.4 Object of two-place transitive (O)
  • 4.1.5 Object of three-place transitive (O)
  • 4.2 Relativization of non-arguments
  • 4.2.1 Relativization of adjuncts
  • 4.2.2 Relativization of possessor
  • 4.2.3 Relativization of locative and allative adjuncts
  • 5. Noun-complement clauses
  • 5.1 Content-taking nouns as head
  • 5.2 Perception nouns as head
  • 5.3 Relational nouns as head.
  • 6. Grammaticalization of noun-modifying clause constructions
  • 6.1 Relative clause construction with bound nouns as head> lexical nominalizations
  • 6.2 Noun-complement clause construction with perception nouns as head> 'mermaid construction'
  • 6.3 Noun-complement clause construction with relational nouns as head> subordinate temporal clause construction
  • 7. Noun + noun compounds
  • 8. Emergent GNMCC
  • 9. Island violation
  • 10. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Sources
  • References
  • Turkish and Turkic complex noun phrase constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Turkish and Sakha constructions headed by a noun or noun phrase: Brief description of their basic properties
  • 2.1 Turkish
  • 2.1.1 Turkish N-complement clause constructions as phrasal compounds
  • 2.1.2 Turkish relative clause constructions as nominal phrases with "adjectival" modifiers
  • 2.1.3 Relative clauses have gaps, N-complement clause constructions do not
  • 2.1.4 Additional morpho-syntactic properties of relative clauses which are different from those of noun-complement constructions in Turkish
  • 2.2 Sakha: More Japanese-like, but not completely
  • 3. Brief comparison of island violations, gapless RCs, and CNPs with loose head-to-clause connections
  • 3.1 Sakha
  • 3.1.1 Island violations in Sakha
  • 3.1.2 Gapless RCs in Sakha
  • 3.1.3 CNPs with loose head-to-clause connection in Sakha
  • 3.2 Turkish
  • 3.2.1 Island violations in Turkish
  • 3.2.2 Gapless RCs in Turkish
  • 3.2.3 CNPs with loose head-to-clause connections in Turkish
  • 4. Returning to questions about syntactic islands
  • 4.1 Apparent island violations
  • 4.2 Apparently gapless relative clauses are gapped relative clauses targeting obliques
  • 5. Resumptive pronouns: To what extent are they optional or obligatory, and in what contexts?
  • 5.1 Resumptive pronouns in Sakha.
  • 5.2 Resumptive pronouns in Turkish
  • 6. Islands in Sakha and Turkish: More on resumption, and effects of the islands' placement in the matrix
  • 6.1 Sakha
  • 6.1.1 A well-formed instance of resumption as a saving device
  • 6.1.2 Ill-formed instances of resumption in Sakha island violations
  • 6.2 Turkish
  • 6.3 Comparisons
  • 7. Summary and conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Noun-modifying constructions in Marathi
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) in Marathi
  • 2.1 Relativizing NMCs
  • (A) "Gap" type relativizing NMCs
  • (B) Non-reduction strategy: The relative-corelative type of relativizing NMC
  • (C) So-called "fused" relatives
  • 2.2 Beyond accessibility
  • 2.2.1 Reduced valency prenominal relatives
  • 2.2.2 Verb-gapped prenominal relatives
  • 2.2.3 Gapping NMCs with unpredictable (non-compositional) semantics
  • 2.2.4 Gapless NMCs with sensory and circumstantial head nouns
  • 2.3 Noun-complement NMCs
  • 2.4 The short prenominal NMC
  • 2.5 The short relative-corelative construction
  • 3. Other functions of NMCs in '-lel'- and '-ṇār'
  • 3.1 As a complementizer
  • 3.2 As insubordinate "finite" verbs (Evans 2007)
  • 4. Marathi NMCs: Historical remarks
  • 5. Suggestions for further investigation and concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Conclusion
  • 1. The geographic extent of GNMCCs in Eurasia
  • 2. Competition with other constructions
  • 3. Factors that promote or hinder the presence of GNMCCs
  • References
  • Examples to explore in noun-modifying constructions
  • A. Basic structures
  • background
  • questions/ examples
  • B. Detailed elicitation of NMCs
  • B1. Relative clause equivalents
  • B2. Sentential complement of noun
  • Nouns of communication as head
  • Nouns of thoughts and feeling as head
  • Other content-taking nouns as head
  • B3. Other types of NMC
  • Relational nouns as head.

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