Contexts of Subordination

Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives

Editors

Laura Visapää | University of Helsinki

Jyrki Kalliokoski | University of Helsinki

Helena Sorva | University of Helsinki

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Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is characterised by extensive use of multi-genre data. The collection aims at a more precise understanding of subordination by emphasizing its pragmatic and contextual nature. Subordination and its linguistic realizations are studied from the perspective of language in its actual contexts of use, as an interactional resource available to language users, in both written and spoken language. In addition, the authors produce typologically relevant information about subordination in the different varieties and genres of the studied languages (English, Estonian, Finnish, and French). These qualities make the book unique in the field of subordination studies.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 August 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.249

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ilona Herlin, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Laura Visapää | pp. 1–16

Subordination in a dynamic account of grammar

Ronald W. Langacker | pp. 17–72

Is there really a syntactic category of subordination?

Sonia Cristofaro | pp. 73–91

Rhetorical use of some Finnish conjunctions in constructions and the scope of subordination

Anni Jääskeläinen | pp. 93–124

Subordination in purpose clauses: Variation of verb moods in Finnish and French

Rea Peltola | pp. 125–146

On the contextual conceptualization of joka relative clauses in Finnish

Laura Visapää | pp. 147–172

More subordinate? Verb-final order and subordination in Finnish dialects

Maria Vilkuna | pp. 173–202

Subordination and the prosodic marking of punctuation in L’étranger by Albert Camus

Mari Wiklund | pp. 203–221

Utterances ending in the conjunction että: Complete or to be continued?

Aino Koivisto | pp. 223–244

French and Finnish converbal constructions and their translation from French into Finnish

Eva Havu | pp. 245–268

Development of the Estonian conjunction kuna ‘while; because’ during the 20th century

Helen Plado | pp. 269–286

Index | pp. 287–288

“ Contexts of Subordination presents an innovative view of the features of and main approaches to its subject, and sets a good example to the study of subordination in both theory and practice. It will be a worthwhile read not only for students and lecturers who are interested in subordination,
but also for functionalists, corpus linguists and typologists.”

Yi’na Wang & Siqi Lyu, Beihang University, in Functions of Language 24:1 (2017)

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