Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- ISBN 9780198870319
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages880 pages
- Size 254x180x50 mm
- Weight 1490 g
- Language English 616
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Short description:
This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants. It examines general issues and offers case studies of clause chaining and related phenomena in a range of languages.
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The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the Americas. Clause chains consist of several dependent clauses and one main clause, and are used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants; they often go together with switch-reference marking, an indication of whether upcoming subjects will be co-referential with preceding subjects or not.
The introductory chapter features a discussion of the typological properties of clause chaining, with a brief overview of previous approaches to and investigations of clause chains followed by an overview of their recurrent grammatical features; it ends with an appendix featuring notes for fieldworkers. The first part of the book explores general issues in clause chaining, including prosody, acquisition, and language contact and history; later parts then examine clause chaining and related phenomena in a wide range of languages from around the world.
Table of Contents:
Clause chaining in the languages of the world in typological perspective
Part I. General issues in clause chaining
Prosody in clause chaining constructions
The acquisition of clause chaining
Clause chaining and switch-reference in language contact and language history
Part II. Clause chaining in languages of New Guinea
Clause chaining in Greater Awyu languages of West Papua
Clause chaining and switch-reference in Ndu languages
Clause chaining in Finisterre Papuan languages
Clause chaining and other means of clause linking in Doromu-Koki
Clause chaining in Eibela
Clause chaining in Matukar Panau (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea)
Part III. Clause chaining in North American Indian languages
Clause chaining in Muskogean languages
Clause chaining in Uto-Aztecan: A Northern Paiute perspective
Delineating typological categories: Central Alaskan Yup'ik
Part IV. Clause chaining in South American Indian languages
Clause chaining in Aguaruna (Chicham)
Clause chaining in East Tukanoan Kotiria and Wa'ikhana: Structural and pragmatic features
Object-oriented switch-reference in Pano
Switch-reference and clause chaining in Northern Jê
Part V. Clause chaining in languages of Eurasia
Clause chaining in Kurtöp
Clause chaining in Dzongkha
Clause chains and related structures in Macro-Tani languages
Clause chaining in Adyghe (West Caucasian)
Clause chaining in Tsova-Tush and East Caucasian
Clause chaining in Turkic
The development of clause chaining in Turkish
Clause chaining in Buryat (North Mongolic)
Clause chains and intonation units in Japanese narratives
Part VI. Clause chaining in languages of Eastern and Southern Africa
The Amharic converb in clause chaining
Converb constructions and clause chaining in Cushitic
Clause chaining in Bantu languages
