Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region'...

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Autor Corporativo: International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (-)
Otros Autores: Vajda, Edward J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub c2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and.
Notas:"Originally presented at the "Third International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia" ('LENCA-3') held at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Tomsk, Russian Federation, during June 27-30, 2006"--Foreword.
Descripción Física:xi, 218 p. : il., mapa
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9789027290946