Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Erscheinungsjahr 1988
ISBN: 978-90-272-2893-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 960 g

Reihe: Typological Studies in Language

Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haiman, John

Thompson, Sandra A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Linking intonation units in spoken English
- A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative
- Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses
- Concessive clauses in English and Romance
- Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives
- Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French
- Towards a typology of clause linkage
- Subordination in Tauya
- Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie
- The structure of discourse and 6;subordination'
- The grammaticalization of coordination
- The discourse function af clause-chaining
- Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose
- Index