Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining
The multifunctionality of conjunctions
Editor
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here. Couched within the larger issue of the nature of categoriality in language, several of the papers show that conjunctions are highly polyfunctional items, and that clause combining is only one of the uses to which speakers put them. Other topics treated in the volume are the historical development of conjunctions and the use of formulaic main clause constructions as projective units in conversation. The articles manifest both typological and theoretical breadth. They are based on data from Bulgarian, English, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish. The theoretical approaches include discourse-functional, interactional, historical and generative linguistics.
[Typological Studies in Language, 80] 2008. xiv, 253 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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IntroductionRitva Laury and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. ix–xiv
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From subordinate clause to noun-phrase: Yang constructions in colloquial IndonesianRobert Englebretson | pp. 1–33
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On quotative constructions in Iberian SpanishRicardo Etxepare | pp. 35–77
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Bulgarian adversative connectives: Conjunctions or discourse markers?Grace E. Fielder | pp. 79–97
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Projectability and clause combining in interactionPaul J. Hopper and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 99–123
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Conjunction and sequenced actions: The Estonian complementizer and evidential particle etLeelo Keevallik | pp. 125–152
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Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum: The Finnish ettäRitva Laury and Eeva-Leena Seppänen | pp. 153–178
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The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversationJean Mulder and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 179–204
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Quotative tte in Japanese: Its multifaceted functions and degrees of "subordination"Shigeko Okamoto and Tsuyoshi Ono | pp. 205–230
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Quoting and topic-marking: Some observations on the quotative tte construction in JapaneseRyoko Suzuki | pp. 231–246
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Index of names | pp. 247–249
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Index of subjects | pp. 251–253
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CFK: Grammar, syntax
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General