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The Semantics of Clause Linking - A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Paperback)
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The Semantics of Clause Linking - A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Paperback)
Series: Explorations in Linguistic Typology
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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different
grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of
semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on
ways of combining clauses other than through relative and
complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of
semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of
consequence - cause, result, and purpose - which may be illustrated
in English by, respectively: Because John has been studying German
for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for
years, thus he speaks it well; and John has been studying German
for years, in order that he should speak it well. Syntactic
descriptions of languages provide a grammatical analysis of clause
types. The chapters in this book add the further dimension of
semantics, generally in the form of focal and supporting clauses,
the former referring to the central activity or state of the
biclausal linking; and the latter to the clause attached to it. The
supporting clause may set out the temporal milieu for the focal
clause or specify a condition or presupposition for it or a
preliminary statement of it, as in Although John has been studying
German for years (the supporting clause), he does not speak it well
(the focal clause). Professor Dixon's extensive opening discussion
is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from
Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding
synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.
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