Cross-linguistic variation in adjoined clause linkage is higher than what is allowed by universal concepts like ‘coordination’ or ‘subordination’ which entail sets of strictly correlated properties. This chapters uses statistical techniques to uncover probabilistic correlations and clusters in a pilot database. For this, a set of variables is developed that ranges in coverage from the scope of illocutionary force operators to extraction constraints and that allows both detailed qualitative analysis of language-specific clause linkage structures and large-scale quantified measurement of the similarities of such structures within and between languages. The study tentatively suggests that there is a prototype of subordination which is closer to ‘and’-like than to ‘chaining’ constructions, and that there is a continuum between more vs. less tightly constrained types of converb and chaining constructions, but no general prototype of ‘cosubordination’.
2015. Semantic typology: New approaches to crosslinguistic variation in language and cognition. Linguistics Vanguard 1:1 ► pp. 189 ff.
Nyst, Victoria, Marta Morgado, Timothy Mac Hadjah, Marco Nyarko, Mariana Martins, Lisa van der Mark, Evans Burichani, Tano Angoua, Moustapha Magassouba, Dieydi Sylla, Kidane Admasu & Anique Schüller
2022. Object and handling handshapes in 11 sign languages: towards a typology of the iconic use of the hands. Linguistic Typology 26:3 ► pp. 573 ff.
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Borja Herce, The typological diversity of morphomes: A cross-linguistic study of unnatural morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 303.. Journal of Linguistics► pp. 1 ff.
2023. Testing Inferences about Language Contact on Morphosyntax: A Typological Case Study on Alorese–Adang Contact. Transactions of the Philological Society 121:3 ► pp. 513 ff.
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