Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages
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Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages
（Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300）
John Benjamins, c2008
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Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and analytic methods of subordination and coordination. Much of the data reflect original fieldwork, and several chapters focus on critically endangered languages. Nearly every family or isolate in North Asia is taken into consideration, as are all major formal and functional types of complex sentence formation.
Table of Contents
- 1. Editor's foreword (by Vajda, Edward J.)
- 2. I. Introduction
- 3. Subordination, coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics (by Comrie, Bernard)
- 4. II. Analytic patterns of subordination and coordination
- 5. Speech report constructions in Ainu (by Bugaeva, Anna)
- 6. The syntax and pragmatics of adverbial clauses in Eastern Khanty (by Filtchenko, Andrey)
- 7. Null arguments in Kumyk adverbial clauses (by Humnick, Linda)
- 8. Finites structures in Forest Enets subordination: A case study of language change under strong Russian influence (by Khanina, Olesya)
- 9. Grammaticization and relative clauses in Eastern Khanty (by Potanina, Olga)
- 10. Toward a semantic typology of coordination (by Rudnitskaya, Elena)
- 11. Question particles or what? Open alternative questions in Udeghe (by Tolskaya, Maria)
- 12. III. Suffixation as a technique of syntactic subordination
- 13. The development of deconverbal prepositions: Reanalysis or grammaticalization? (by Birzer, Sandra)
- 14. Imperatives in conditional and concessive subordinate clauses (by Dobrushina, Nina)
- 15. Morphological strategies for 'complex sentences' and polysynthesis in central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo) (by Miyaoka, Osahito)
- 16. Converbs in Northern Selkup (by Valijarvi, Riita-Liisa)
- 17. Head-negating enclitics in Ket (by Vajda, Edward J.)
- 18. Infinitive constructions in Ket (by Zinn, Marina)
- 19. Index
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