Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
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Main description:Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume. Contributions by John Haiman Sandra A. Thompson, Wallace Chafe, Carol Genetti, John Haiman, Martin Harris, Ekkehard Konig Johan van der Auwera, Kn...
Main description:
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume. Contributions by John Haiman Sandra A. Thompson, Wallace Chafe, Carol Genetti, John Haiman, Martin Harris, Ekkehard Konig Johan van der Auwera, Knud Lambrecht, Christian Lehmann, Lorna MacDonald, Lynell Marchese, Christian Matthiessen Sandra A. Thompson, Marianne Mithun, John Myhill Junko Hibiya, Johanna Nichols.
Table of contents:
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Linking intonation units in spoken English
- A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative
- Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses
- Concessive clauses in English and Romance
- Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives
- Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French
- Towards a typology of clause linkage
- Subordination in Tauya
- Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie
- The structure of discourse and 6;subordination'
- The grammaticalization of coordination
- The discourse function af clause-chaining
- Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose
- Index
Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume. Contributions by John Haiman Sandra A. Thompson, Wallace Chafe, Carol Genetti, John Haiman, Martin Harris, Ekkehard Konig Johan van der Auwera, Knud Lambrecht, Christian Lehmann, Lorna MacDonald, Lynell Marchese, Christian Matthiessen Sandra A. Thompson, Marianne Mithun, John Myhill Junko Hibiya, Johanna Nichols.
Table of contents:
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Linking intonation units in spoken English
- A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative
- Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses
- Concessive clauses in English and Romance
- Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives
- Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French
- Towards a typology of clause linkage
- Subordination in Tauya
- Sequential chaining and discourse structure in Godie
- The structure of discourse and 6;subordination'
- The grammaticalization of coordination
- The discourse function af clause-chaining
- Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose
- Index