Cargando…
Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining : the multifunctionality of conjunctions /
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2008.
|
| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 80. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here. Couched within the larger issue of the nature of categoriality in language, several of the papers show that conjunctions are highly polyfunctional items, and that clau. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289919 9027289913 1282104381 9781282104389 |