Levels in Clause Linkage - A Crosslinguistic Survey

This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level classification of clause linkage based on semantic and pragmatic grounds, it shows that, within individual languages different markers exhibit different distributions on the five levels. Also, the rich evidence presented from seventeen languages from many parts of the world documents that these distributions present commonalities as well as differences across the languages of the sample.

About the author

Tasaku Tsunoda, Prof. Em. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tasaku Tsunoda (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783110516777
• ISBN: 978-3-11-051677-7
• No. of pages: 892
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 62 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 1626 g
• Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics