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 | Article
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