Subordination in Native South American Languages
Editors
| Radboud University Nijmegen
| CNRS, SeDyL/CELIA
| Radboud University Nijmegen
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.
[Typological Studies in Language, 97] 2011. viii, 315 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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Subordination in South America: An overviewRik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken | pp. 1–24
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Subordinate adverbial constructions in MekensAna Vilacy Galucio | pp. 25–44
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Relative clauses in MẽbengokreAndrés Pablo Salanova | pp. 45–78
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Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan)Swintha Danielsen | pp. 79–108
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Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narrativesAntoine Guillaume | pp. 109–140
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Referring to states and events: Subordination in MovimaKatharina Haude | pp. 141–168
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Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordinationRik van Gijn | pp. 169–192
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Subordination in CholónAstrid Alexander-Bakkerus | pp. 193–220
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Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordinationRafael Fischer and Eva van Lier | pp. 221–250
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Relative clauses in Ecuadorian QuechuaPieter Muysken | pp. 251–266
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Participial clauses in Tarma QuechuaWillem F. H. Adelaar | pp. 267–280
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Complex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with ChipayaKatja Hannss | pp. 281–306
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Author index | pp. 307–308
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Language index | pp. 309–312
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Subject index | pp. 313–316
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General