Full Description
This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not been thoroughly explored in the literature. First, the correlation between finiteness and nominalization is also affected by a third factor, information structure. Second, there is a correlation between the continuum of finiteness and the scale from main/independent clauses to dependent clauses. Given that of nominalized constructions occur not only in dependent clauses, but also in independent clauses, it is possible to grade according to degree of nominalization, which can then be related to the scale of finiteness. Finally, each of these scales can also be seen as a product the diachronic process of re-finitization and of finitization.
Contents
1. Acknowledgments; 2. Finiteness and nominalization: An overview (by Chamoreau, Claudine); 3. PART I. Finiteness, nominalization and information structure; 4. Finiteness, nominalization, and information structure: Convergence and divergence (by Bisang, Walter); 5. Exploring finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan) (by Estrada-Fernandez, Zarina); 6. PART II. Correlation between continuum of finiteness and scale from dependent to independent clause; 7. Finiteness in Haruai (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. Non-finite chain-medial clauses on the continuum of finiteness in Purepecha (by Chamoreau, Claudine); 9. PART III. Nominalization structures and their relation to the scale of finiteness; 10. The evolution of grammatical nominalizations in Cahita languages (by Gonzalez, Albert Alvarez); 11. On the tightrope between infinitives and action nouns: The case of Otomi nominalizations (by Palancar, Enrique L.); 12. Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions (by Moyse-Faurie, Claire); 13. The role of nominalization in theticity: A Sikuani contribution (by Queixalos, Francesc); 14. On non-finiteness and canonical imperatives (by Heine, Bernd); 15. PART IV. Diachronic process: re-finitization and finitization; 16. Nominalization and re-finitization (by Givon, T.); 17. Shifting finiteness in nominalization: From definitization to refinitization (by Mithun, Marianne); 18. The Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) and its refinitization (by Vanhove, Martine); 19. On finitization (by Rose, Francoise); 20. Language Index; 21. Name Index; 22. Subject Index
