A Typology of Purpose Clauses
Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp.
Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
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Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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2010. The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses. Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 121–146
Across the world’s languages, adverbial clauses of purpose provide an important constructional environment for the occurrence of benefactive and semantically related markers. Based on a recent cross-linguistic study of purpose clauses (Schmidtke-Bode 2009), the present paper provides a systematic… read more | Article