Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages

by Vajda, Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9789027248169
• ISBN10: 9027248168
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Editor's foreword
Introduction
Subordination, Coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics	p. 1
Analytic patterns of subordination and coordination
Speech Report Constructions in Ainu	p. 17
The Syntax and Pragmatics of Adverbial Clauses in Eastern Khanty	p. 31
Null Arguments in Kumyk Adverbial Clauses	p. 47
Finite Structures in Forest Enets Subordination: A case study of language change under strong Russian influence	p. 63
Grammaticization and Relative Clauses in Eastern Khanty	p. 77
Toward a semantic typology of coordination	p. 85
Question particles or what? Open alternative questions in Udeghe	p. 97
Suffixation as a Technique of Syntactic Subordination
The Development of Deconverbal Prepositions: Reanalysis or grammaticalization?	p. 109
Imperatives in Conditional and Concessive Subordinate Clauses	p. 123
Morphological Strategies for 'Complex Sentences' and Polysynthesis in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo)	p. 143
Converbs in Northern Selkup	p. 167
Head-Negating Enclitics in Ket	p. 179
Infinitive Constructions in Ket	p. 203
Index	p. 215
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