The Semantics of Clause Linking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Semantics of Clause Linking write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 2009-08-06. The Semantics of Clause Linking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy
Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy write by Isabelle Bril. This book was released on 2010. Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents some theoretical reassessment of syntactic terminologies and distinctive criteria for subordination, as well as typological methods based on sets of variables and statistics allowing cross-linguistic comparability. Part II deals with strategies relating to clause-chaining, conjunctive conjugations, converbial constructions, masdars. Part III centers on the interaction between the syntax, pragmatics, and semantics of clause-linking and subordination, in relation to informa-tional structure, to referential hierarchy, and correlative constructions. Part IV presents insights in the clause-linking and subordinating functions of some T.A.M. markers, verbal inflectional morphology and conjugation systems, which may also interact with informa-tional hierarchy, via the backgrounding effects and lack of illocutionary force of some aspect and mood forms. The volume is of particular interest to linguists and typologists working on clause-linkage systems and on the interface between syntax, pragmatics, and semantics.
A Study of Clause Linkage
A Study of Clause Linkage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of Clause Linkage write by Yoko Hasegawa. This book was released on 1996-04-26. A Study of Clause Linkage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Employing a hybrid theoretical framework of Role and Reference Grammar and Construction Grammar, this volume investigates the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the diverse families of Japanese constructions in which the verbal suffix TE (approximately the English 'and') is a linking device. The TE suffix is the most frequent and versatile connective in Japanese, able to link all three types of verbal constituents. Because the semantic relations obtainable between the conjuncts are heterogeneous, the prevailing view is that TE-linkage is a mere syntactic device with no semantic content; and the interpreter must infer intended semantic relations based on extra linguistic knowledge. However, closer examination reveals clear correlations between its syntax and semantics that have been obscured in previous studies which did not investigate TE-constructions as pairings of form and meaning. Detailed analysis of TE-linkage is of special significance to linguistic theory because it inevitably involves the search for an adequate descriptive framework for representing connectives.
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface write by Robert D. Van Valin. This book was released on 2005-07-07. Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at how syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in different ways across human languages.
Levels in Clause Linkage
Levels in Clause Linkage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Levels in Clause Linkage write by Tasaku Tsunoda. This book was released on 2018-02-05. Levels in Clause Linkage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a cross-linguistic exploration of the use of clause linkage markers in causal, conditional, and concessive sentences. Employing a five-level classification of clause linkage based on semantic and pragmatic grounds, it shows that, within individual languages different markers exhibit different distributions on the five levels. Also, the rich evidence presented from seventeen languages from many parts of the world documents that these distributions present commonalities as well as differences across the languages of the sample.
