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Publication details [#45425]
Kerslake, Celia. 2007. Alternative subordination strategies in Turkish. In Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch, eds. Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse. (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 5). John Benjamins. pp. 231–258. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This article examines the distribution of non-finite and finite strategies within each of the major categories of subordinate clause (nominal, adjectival/relative and adverbial) in Turkish. Noting the association of the various non-finite strategies with less formal registers, it seeks psycholinguistic, pragmatic and rhetorical explanations for the popularity of these alternative structures alongside a fully developed system of non-finite subordination.