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Diverse scenarios of syntactic complexity /

"This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the swit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Seminar on Syntactic Complexity Universidad de Sonora
Otros Autores: Alvarez González, Albert (Editor ), Estrada Fernández, Zarina (Editor ), Chamoreau, Claudine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Colección:Typological studies in language ; volume 126.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The notion of syntactic complexity; Presentation of the book; Overview of the papers; References; Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact; Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New Guinea; 1. Introduction; 2. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: The basics; 2.1 Switch-reference morphology in Kobon and Haruai; 3. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: What is tracked?
  • 4. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Overlapping reference4.1 Overlapping reference in Kobon; 4.2 Overlapping reference in Haruai; 5. Conclusion and prospects; Abbreviations; References; Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in Dakkhini; 1. Introduction; 2. Theories of language mixing outcomes: The MLFM; 3. Dakkhini; 3.1 Dakkhini: Basic facts; 3.2 Dakkhini: Some examples; 3.3 Dakkhini and the MLFM; 4. An exoskeletal frame model: EFM; 4.1 The EFM is a generative competence model; 4.2 The structure and properties of the EFM
  • 4.3 How the EFM deals with CS type mixing data5. An exoskeletal EFM analysis of Dakkhini; 5.1 Dakkhini and the EFM; 5.2 Dakkhini and the complementizer ki; 5.3 Dakkhini and Bol ke; 5.4 Wider implications of our analysis; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; References; Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition; Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp-que constructions in Spanish acquisition; 1. Introduction; 2. Antecedents; 2.1 Constructional grounding in acquisition; 2.2 Spanish antecedents
  • 3. Method3.1 Data selection; 3.2 Data presentation; 4. Analysis; 4.1 Overview of early complex sentences: ctv + comp-que constructions; 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory; 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory; 4.3 Looking at Free comp-que constructions; 4.4 Development of ctv frames and comp-que constructions; 4.5 Bridging the gap. Dialogical support and on-line integration; 5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; References
  • Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clausesThe predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts; 1. Introduction; 2. Temporal properties and a word's informational structure; 3. Properties of form; 3.1 Values for PER and N; 3.2 Temporality and form; 3.3 Implications; 4. Conclusion; References; Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui; 1. Introduction; 2. Yaqui sentences; 2.1 Simple clauses; 2.2 Relative clauses; 2.3 Complement clauses; 3. Adverbial subordinators, some generalities; 4. Yaqui adverbial subordinators; 4.1 The sample; 4.2 Specific subordinators; 4.3 General subordinators