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 Thompsons 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

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

Table of Contents

Introduction Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan	vii
Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions Joan L. Bybee	1–17
Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class? Bernard Comrie	19–30
Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English Charles J. Fillmore †	31–59
Denial and the construction of conversational turns Cecilia E. Ford	61–78
On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world Barbara A. Fox	79–99
The symmetry of counterfactuals John Haiman and Tania Kuteva	101–124
Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations Pelin Engin Hennesy and T. Givón	125–144
Hendiadys and auxiliation in English Paul J. Hopper	145–173
‘Sentence’ in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse Shoichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Ono	175–202
Some issues concerning the origin of language Charles N. Li	203–221
Are subordinate clauses more difficult? Carol Lord	223–233
Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen	235–319
Overwrought utterances: ‘Complex sentences’ in a different sense Emanuel A. Schegloff	321–336
Publications by Sandra A. Thompson	337–345
Language index	347–349
Name index	351–355
Subject index	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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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

Pragmatics

Discourse studies

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2001058311