Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse

Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson

Editors

Joan L. Bybee | University of New Mexico

Michael Noonan | University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

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The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.110

Table of Contents

Introduction

Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan | p. vii

Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions

Joan L. Bybee | pp. 1–17

Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class?

Bernard Comrie | pp. 19–30

Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English

Charles J. Fillmore | pp. 31–59

Denial and the construction of conversational turns

Cecilia E. Ford | pp. 61–78

On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world

Barbara A. Fox | pp. 79–99

The symmetry of counterfactuals

John Haiman and Tania Kuteva | pp. 101–124

Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations

Pelin Engin Hennesy and T. Givón | pp. 125–144

Hendiadys and auxiliation in English

Paul J. Hopper | pp. 145–173

‘Sentence’ in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse

Shoichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Ono | pp. 175–202

Some issues concerning the origin of language

Charles N. Li | pp. 203–221

Are subordinate clauses more difficult?

Carol Lord | pp. 223–233

Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen | pp. 235–319

Overwrought utterances: ‘Complex sentences’ in a different sense

Emanuel A. Schegloff | pp. 321–336

Publications by Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 337–345

Language index | pp. 347–349

Name index | pp. 351–355

Subject index | pp. 357–363

“This is a useful and thought-provoking collection.”

Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University, in Language 79(4), 2003

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