Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity

Editors

Albert Álvarez González | University of Sonora

Zarina Estrada-Fernández | University of Sonora

Claudine Chamoreau | CNRS (SEDYL/CELIA - CEMCA)

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126

Table of Contents

Introduction | pp. 1–9

Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact

Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New Guinea

John Davies and Bernard Comrie | pp. 13–26

Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in Dakkhini

Tor A. Åfarli and Karumuri V. Subbarao | pp. 27–49

Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition

Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp-que constructions in Spanish acquisition

Cecilia Rojas-Nieto | pp. 53–83

Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clauses

The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts

Susan Steele | pp. 87–107

Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui

Lilián Guerrero | pp. 109–136

Part IV. The diachrony of syntactic complexity

Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in Purepecha

Claudine Chamoreau | pp. 139–166

Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo: Diachronic diversity

Zarina Estrada-Fernández | pp. 167–189

Syntactic complexity and grammaticalization in Toba language (Guaycuruan)

Cristina Messineo | pp. 191–216

From discourse to syntax: The use of the discourse marker bwe in the creation of interclausal connectives in Yaqui

Albert Álvarez González | pp. 217–247

Authors Index

Language Index

Subject Index

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

Typology

Main BIC Subject

CFK: Grammar, syntax

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

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ONIX 2.1

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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019014378 | Marc record