Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2007
VIII, 465 pages
978-90-272-9248-3 (ISBN)
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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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Jochen Rehbein | Christiane Hohenstein | Lukas Pietsch
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- Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Connectivity as an object of linguistics
- I. Aspects of language changeand language acquisition
- Grammaticalization of converb constructions
- Contact, connectivity and language evolution
- ALLORA. On the recurrence of function-word borrowing in contact situations with Italian as donor language
- Some notes on the syntax-pragmatics interface in bilingual children. German in contact with French / Italian
- II. Pronouns, topics and subjects
- Distribution and function of clitic object pronouns in popular 16th-18th century Greek narratives. A synchronic and diachronic perspective
- Nominative subjects of non-finite clauses in Hiberno-English
- III. Finiteness in text and discourse
- Aspectotemporal connectivity in Turkic. Text construction, text subdivision, discourse types and taxis
- Connectivity by means of finite elements in mono- and bilingual Turkish discourses*
- IV. Subordination - coordination
- Alternative subordination strategies in Turkish*
- Studying connectivity with the help of computer-readable corpora
- Discourse coordination in Turkish monolingual and Turkish-German bilingual children's talk: iste*
- V. Adverbs, particles and constructions
- Modal adverbs as discourse markers - a bilingual approach to the study of indeed*
- "So, given this common theme...": Linking constructions in discourse across languages*
- An utterance-transcending connector. Particle to in utterance-final position in Japanese business reporting*
- Between connectivity and modality. Reported speech in interpreter-mediated doctor-patient communication
- Matrix constructions
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
- The series Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism
