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1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300 |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300.
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| Contents |
Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION; SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU; THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES; FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION; GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION; QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT?; THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS; IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Hungarian.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Onderschikking.
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Nevenschikking.
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Subordinate constructions -- Congresses
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Coordinate constructions -- Congresses
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Northern Russia
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Noord-Azië.
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vajda, Edward J.
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International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (3rd : 2006 : Tomsk, Russia)
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| ISBN |
9789027290946 |
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9027290946 |
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1282104519 |
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9781282104518 |
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