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Relative clauses in time and space : a case study in the methods of diachronic typology / Rachel Hendery

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Hendery, Rachel
Published
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
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xii, 281 pages ; 25 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.1.What is diachronic typology? -- 1.1.1.Typology as a tool for investigating language change -- 1.1.2.Historical linguistics as a tool for investigating typology -- 1.1.3.'What's where why' becomes 'what's where when and why' -- 1.2.About this book -- 1.2.1.Demonstrating the methods of diachronic typology -- 1.2.2.Why use relative clauses as a case study? Some methodological considerations -- 1.3.A brief introduction to the relative clause -- 1.3.1.What is a relative clause? -- 1.3.2.The types and subtypes of relative clauses -- 1.3.3.Relative clause markers -- 1.3.4.Relative clauses around the world -- 1.3.5.Relative clauses through time -- 2.1.Types of relationship between grammatical markers -- 2.2.Case studies of sources and extensions -- 2.2.1.Pronouns -- 2.2.2.Classifiers and generic nouns -- 2.2.3.Discourse markers -- 2.2.4.Possessives -- 2.2.5.Comparatives -- 2.2.6.Adverbial clauses -- 2.2.7.Complement clauses -- 2.2.8.General subordination -- 2.2.9.Adjective markers -- 2.2.10.General linkers -- 2.2.11.Less well-documented extensions -- 2.3.Conclusions: What came from where, when and why? -- 3.1.Redistribution of markers -- 3.2.Loss of markers -- 3.2.1.Loss and general typological change -- 3.3.Formal changes -- 3.3.1.From invariant complementiser to inflecting pronoun and vice versa -- 3.3.2.From free-standing marker to verb affix -- 3.4.Grammatical markers: What's where when and why? -- 3.4.1.Relative clause markers in space and time -- 3.4.2.Relative clause markers and language contact -- 3.4.3.Implications for the methods of diachronic typology -- 4.1.The origins of embedded clauses -- 4.2.Deranking and balancing of verb forms -- 4.3.Correlatives -- 4.4.Change in clause order -- 4.4.1.Relative clauses that follow the head -- 4.4.2.Relative clauses that precede the head -- 4.5.Syntax: What's where, when and why? -- 4.5.1.Stability -- 4.5.2.Implications for the methods of diachronic typology -- 5.1.'Basic word order' as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.2.Other word order 'harmonies' as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.3.Embedding as a factor in relative clause change -- 5.4.The relationship between grammatical marker type and syntactic change -- 5.5.The relevance of language family affiliation to relative clause change -- 5.6.Language contact and relative clause change -- 5.7.The relative influence of internal and external factors -- 6.1.What's where when? Mapping relative clauses in three dimensions -- 6.2.... and why: Processes and mechanisms -- 6.3.Language contact -- 6.4.Implications for the structure of relative clauses -- 6.5.Implications for taxonomies of relative clause types -- 6.6.The methods of diachronic typology.
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ISBN
9789027206824 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9027206821 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789027273680 (eb)
9027273685 (eb)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-262) and index.
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: A gift made in memory of Joseph V. Paterno by Mona Steel Snyder; 2012.
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