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Relative clauses in languages of the Americas : a typological overview /
Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are simil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
2012.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas. |
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| Notas: | Selected papers from Seminar on Linguistic Complexity held at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027273390 9027273391 902720683X 9789027206831 9781283594349 128359434X |