Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Editors
This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understand how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world’s languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages.
[Typological Studies in Language, 126] 2019. vi, 257 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 June 2019
Published online on 21 June 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. 1–9
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Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact
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Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New GuineaJohn Davies and Bernard Comrie | pp. 13–26
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Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in DakkhiniTor A. Åfarli and Karumuri V. Subbarao | pp. 27–49
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Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition
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Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp-que constructions in Spanish acquisitionCecilia Rojas-Nieto | pp. 53–83
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Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clauses
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The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjunctsSusan Steele | pp. 87–107
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Adverbial subordinators in YaquiLilián Guerrero | pp. 109–136
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Part IV. The diachrony of syntactic complexity
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Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in PurepechaClaudine Chamoreau | pp. 139–166
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Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo: Diachronic diversityZarina Estrada-Fernández | pp. 167–189
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Syntactic complexity and grammaticalization in Toba language (Guaycuruan)Cristina Messineo | pp. 191–216
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From discourse to syntax: The use of the discourse marker bwe in the creation of interclausal connectives in YaquiAlbert Álvarez González | pp. 217–247
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Authors Index
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Language Index
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Subject Index
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax