基本説明
This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.
Full Description
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Subordination in South America: An overview (by Gijn, Rik van); 3. Subordinate adverbial constructions in Mekens (by Galucio, Ana Vilacy); 4. Relative clauses in Mebengokre (by Salanova, Andres Pablo); 5. Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan) (by Danielsen, Swintha); 6. Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavinena narratives (by Guillaume, Antoine); 7. Referring to states and events: Subordination in Movima (by Haude, Katharina); 8. Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakare subordination (by Gijn, Rik van); 9. Subordination in Cholon (by Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid); 10. Cofan subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination (by Fischer, Rafael); 11. Relative clauses in Ecuadorian Quechua (by Muysken, Pieter); 12. Participial clauses in Tarma Quechua (by Adelaar, Willem F.H.); 13. Complex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with Chipaya (by Hannss, Katja); 14. Author index; 15. Language index; 16. Subject index
