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Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages / edited by Edward J. Vajda

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2008]
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©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations, map
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Vajda, Edward J. and International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (3rd : 2006 : Tomsk, Russia)
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Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION; SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU; THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES; FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION; GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION; QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT?; THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS; IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES.
Summary
Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and.
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9789027290946 (electronic bk.)
9027290946 (electronic bk.)
1282104519
9781282104518
9027248168 (hb ; alk. paper)
9789027248169 (hb ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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