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9789027206787: Subordination in Native South American Languages
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ISBN 10 : 9027206783 ISBN 13 : 9789027206787
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2011

Synopsis

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027206783
ISBN 13 
9789027206787
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
328
Éditeur
Gijn Rik Van, Haude Katharina, Muysken Pieter
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible