Buch, Englisch, Band 88, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 88, 229 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 590 g
Reihe: Typological Studies in Language
ISBN: 978-90-272-0669-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
wThis book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause.
An appendix to A Typology of Purpose Clauses can be found on the author's website: www.karsten-schmidtke.net/purpose
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Abbreviations and notational conventions
ix–xii
1. Aims and scope of the book
2. Theoretical and methodological foundations
5–28
3. The grammar of purpose: Documentation and explanation
29–146
4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences
147–198
Conclusion and outlook
199–203
References
205–219
Index of authors
221–223
Index of languages
224–225
Index of subjects
226–229
