A Typology of Purpose Clauses
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-22 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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wThis book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 lang
A Typology of Purpose Clauses
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- 1. Aims and scope of the book -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 3. The grammar
The Semantics of Clause Linking
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: R. M. W. Dixon
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-06 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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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
Typological Studies
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Guglielmo Cinque
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque
Explanation in typology
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Language Science Press

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This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the l