| Description |
xiii, 442 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Typological studies in language ; v. 18 |
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Typological studies in language ; v. 18
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| Contents |
Introduction / John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson -- Linking intonation units in spoken English / Wallace Chafe -- A syntactic correlate of topicality in Newari narrative / Carol Genetti -- Inconsequential clauses in Hua and the typology of clauses / John Haiman -- Concessive clauses in English and Romance / Martin Harris -- Clause integration in German and Dutch conditionals, concessive conditionals, and concessives / Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera -- Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French / Knud Lambrecht -- Towards a typology of clause linkage / Christian Lehmann -- Subordination in Tauya / Lorna Macdonald -- Sequential chaining and discourse structure inGodie / Lynell Marchese |
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The structure of discourse and "subordination" / Christian Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson -- The grammaticization of coordination / Marianne Mithun -- The discourse function of clause-chaining / John Myhill and Junko Hibiya -- Nominalization and assertion in scientific Russian prose / Johanna Nichols -- Index / Cheng Luo |
| Analysis |
Discourse analysis |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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| Author |
Haiman, John.
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Thompson, Sandra A.
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| LC no. |
88035006 |
| ISBN |
1556190220 (U.S. : alk. paper) |
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1556190239 (paperbackU.S. : alk. paper) |
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9027228930 (European) |
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