The Semantics of Clause Linking
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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence - cause, result, and purpose - which may be illustrated in English by, respectively: Because John has been studying German for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for years, thus he speaks it well; and John has been studying German for years, in order that he should speak it well. Syntactic descriptions of languages provide a grammatical analysis of clause types. The chapters in this book add the further dimension of semantics, generally in the form of focal and supporting clauses, the former referring to the central activity or state of the biclausal linking; and the latter to the clause attached to it. The supporting clause may set out the temporal milieu for the focal clause or specify a condition or presupposition for it or a preliminary statement of it, as in Although John has been studying German for years (the supporting clause), he does not speak it well (the focal clause). Professor Dixon's extensive opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.

Table of Contents:
1: R. M. W. Dixon: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Typological Perspective 2: Guy Deutscher: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Akkadian 3: Mark Post: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Galo 4: David E. Watters: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Kham 5: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Manambu 6: Lev Michael: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Iquito 7: Simon Overall: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Aguaruna 8: J. Randolph Valentine: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Ojibwe 9: R. M. W. Dixon: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Boumaa Fijian 10: Frantisek Lichtenberk: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Toqabaqita 11: Alan Dench: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Martuthunira 12: Ho-min Sohn: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Korean 13: Birgit Hellwig: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Goemai 14: Maarten Mous and Ongaye Oda: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Konso 15: Tonya N. Stebbins: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Mali 16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Semantics and Grammar in Clause Linking Author Index Language and Language Family Index Subject Index

About the Author :
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor in the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His works on typological theory include Where have all the Adjectives Gone? and other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (Mouton, 1982) and Ergativity (CUP, 1994). The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP,1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development; this is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (CUP, 2002). The first two volumes of his magisterial work, Basic Linguistic Theory, are due to be published by OUP in 2009. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a Grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.; Her lengthy grammar, The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, was published by OUP in 2008. Other monographs with OUP are Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), and Imperatives and Commands (2010).

Review :
Built upon an innovative theoretical basis and well-documented empirical materials from an impressively wide and representative variety of the world's languages, this book presents a wealth of insightful analyses and highly useful suggestions for further research on clause linking. Lars Johanson, Language


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199567225
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 5 Explorations in Linguistic Typology
  • Sub Title: A Cross-Linguistic Typology
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199567220
  • Publisher Date: 06 Aug 2009
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 430
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 793 gr


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