Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
Published on 20. June 2002
Book
Hardback
363 pages
978-1-58811-117-3 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.
Reviews / Votes
This is a useful and thought-provoking collection. -- Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University, in Language 79(4), 2003More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-117-3 (9781588111173)
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Content
1. Introduction (by Bybee, Joan L.); 2. Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions (by Bybee, Joan L.); 3. Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class? (by Comrie, Bernard); 4. Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English (by Fillmore, Charles J.); 5. Denial and the construction of conversational turns (by Ford, Cecilia E.); 6. On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world (by Fox, Barbara A.); 7. The symmetry of counterfactuals (by Haiman, John); 8. Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations (by Hennesy, Pelin Engin); 9. Hendiadys and auxiliation in English (by Hopper, Paul J.); 10. 'Sentence' in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 11. Some issues concerning the origin of language (by Li, Charles N.); 12. Are subordinate clauses more difficult? (by Lord, Carol); 13. Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view (by Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M.); 14. Overwrought utterances: 'Complex sentences' in a different sense (by Schegloff, Emanuel A.); 15. Publications by Sandra A. Thompson; 16. Language index; 17. Name index; 18. Subject index