Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse
Published on 5. June 2007
Book
Hardback
465 pages
978-90-272-1925-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual perspectives the focus of investigation is on the grammatical architecture of a number of linguistic devices that interconnect units of text and discourse. The volume is organized along central concepts: A general section deals with connectivity in language change and language acquisition, subdivisions are devoted to pronouns, topics and subjects, the role of finiteness in text and discourse, coordination and subordination and particles, adverbials and constructions. The editors' preface introduces connectivity as an object of linguistic research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
975 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1925-1 (9789027219251)
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Jochen Rehbein | Christiane Hohenstein | Lukas Pietsch
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Content
1. Table of contents; 2. Connectivity as an object of linguistics (by Rehbein, Jochen); 3. Aspects of language change and language acquisition; 4. Grammaticalization of converb constructions: The case of Japanese -te conjunctive constructions (by Shibatani, Masayoshi); 5. Contact, connectivity and language evolution (by Matras, Yaron); 6. Allora: On the recurrence of function-word borrowing in contact situations with Italian as donor language (by Stolz, Thomas); 7. Some notes on the syntax-pragmatics interface in bilingual children: German in contact with French / Italian (by Muller, Natascha); 8. Pronouns, topics and subjects; 9. Distribution and function of clitic object pronouns in popular16th-18th century Greek narratives: A synchronic and diachronic perspective (by Thoma, Chrystalla A.); 10. Nominative subjects of non-finite clauses in Hiberno-English (by Pietsch, Lukas); 11. Finiteness in text and discourse; 12. Aspectotemporal connectivity in Turkic: Text construction, text subdivision, discourse types and taxis (by Johanson, Lars); 13. Connectivity by means of finite elements in monolingual and bilingual Turkish discourse (by Karakoc, Birsel); 14. Subordination - coordination; 15. Alternative subordination strategies in Turkish (by Kerslake, Celia); 16. Studying connectivity with the help of computer-readable corpora: Some exemplary analyses from modern and historical, written and spoken corpora (by Baumgarten, Nicole); 17. Discourse coordination in Turkish monolingual and Turkish-German bilingual children's talk: iste (by Herkenrath, Annette); 18. Adverbials, particles and constructions; 19. Modal adverbs as discourse markers: A bilingual approach to the study of indeed (by Aijmer, Karin); 20. "So, given this common theme...": Linking constructions in discourse across languages (by Buhrig, Kristin); 21. An utterance-transcending connector: Particle to in utterance-final position in Japanese business reporting (by Sugita, Yuko); 22. Between connectivity and modality: Reported speech in interpreter-mediated doctor-patient communication (by Johnen, Thomas); 23. Matrix constructions (by Rehbein, Jochen); 24. Language index; 25. Name index; 26. Subject index