Subordination

Zusatztext the first systemic attempt to proivide a comprehensive functional account of the connections among all subordination types in terms of overall implicational hierarchies. To my mind, Cristofaro accomplishes this task with flying colours ... extremely well-written as well as user-friendly Informationen zum Autor Sonia Cristofaro received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pavia in 1998, and is now Associate Professor of Linguistics at the same university. Her main research areas include syntax, semantics, and typology. She is the author of a book on complementation in Ancient Greek (Aspetti della complementatione frasale in greco antico, 1996). Her publications also include various articles on the syntax and semantics of complex sentences. Klappentext This book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria! such as clausal embedding or non-finiteness. The book shows that these definitions are untenable in a cross-linguistic perspective! and provides a cognitively based definition of subordination. Zusammenfassung Represents the study so far conducted on the typology of subordination (clause or sentence dependency). Based on an 80 language sample, this book provides a large amount of data on the coding of several types of complement, adverbial, and relative sentence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Theoretical Premises 2: The Notion of Subordination 3: The Coding of Subordination 4: The Cross-linguistic Coding of Subordination 5: Complement Relations 6: Adverbial Relations 7: Relative Relations 8: Comparison of Complement, Adverbial, and Relative Relations 9: The Coding of Subordination Relations 10: Correlations Between Individual Morphosyntactic Phenomena 11: Conclusions and Prospects

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Cristofaro, Sonia (University of Pavia) Cristofaro, Cristofaro Sonia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2005
• EAN: 9780199282005
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928200-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory; Oxford Studies in Typology and; Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics