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Title Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages / edited by Edward J. Vajda
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300.
Contents Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION; SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU; THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES; FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION; GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION; QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT?; THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS; IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
Summary 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
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Subject FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Hungarian.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Onderschikking.
Nevenschikking.
SUBJECT Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Subordinate constructions -- Congresses
Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Coordinate constructions -- Congresses
Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Syntax -- Congresses
Subject Northern Russia
Noord-Azië.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Vajda, Edward J.
International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (3rd : 2006 : Tomsk, Russia)
ISBN 9789027290946
9027290946
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9781282104518