Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 800 g
A cross-linguistic perspective
Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 800 g
Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series
ISBN: 978-90-272-3109-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization – at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific – predominantly semantic – topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.
